20/03/2019 12:51, Christian Ehrhardt:
> @rdma-core team
> - does ibverbs1/ibverbs-providers generally need rdma-core to be useful?
ibverbs is provided by rdma-core project.
Is it a separate package in your case?
> - if so why isn't it at least a recommends from those packages
> @Thomas
> - do you happen to know what exactly of rdma-core that librte-pmd-mlx[45]
> need?
Yes, you need libmlx4, libmlx5 and libibverbs.
It is described in the doc:
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#prerequisites