From: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> Based on the techboard meeting held on 2019-11-06, It's been decided to disable all kmods by default from v20.02.
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> --- v2: - Updated meson config file to disable the kmods by default(Maxime) - Updated the release notes(Honnappa) I am not sure, in which section, we need to update the release notes for this specific case.I have updated on the "New Features" section. Thoughts ? config/common_linux | 2 -- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst | 5 +++++ meson_options.txt | 2 +- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/config/common_linux b/config/common_linux index c5cf3d662..583efadc7 100644 --- a/config/common_linux +++ b/config/common_linux @@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUX=y CONFIG_RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUXAPP=y CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=y -CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=y CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=y -CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=y CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_KNI=y CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_KNI=y CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST=y diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst index 9cc257168..afd645e7a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ New Features A new API has been added to wait for a memory location to be updated with a 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit value. +* **Disabled all the Linux kernel modules build by default.** + + In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel, + The techboard decided to disable all the kernel modules build by + default from v20.02 version. Removed Items ------------- diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt index bc369d06c..53dfe13c3 100644 --- a/meson_options.txt +++ b/meson_options.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ option('drivers_install_subdir', type: 'string', value: 'dpdk/pmds-<VERSION>', description: 'Subdirectory of libdir where to install PMDs. Defaults to using a versioned subdirectory.') option('enable_docs', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'build documentation') -option('enable_kmods', type: 'boolean', value: true, +option('enable_kmods', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'build kernel modules') option('examples', type: 'string', value: '', description: 'Comma-separated list of examples to build by default') -- 2.24.1
