Did git pull today. After enabling mlnx pmd compilation fails with:
dpdk/lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.c: In function ?mlx4_pci_devinit?:
dpdk/lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.c:4636:14: error: too few arguments to function
?rte_eth_dev_allocate?
eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_allocate(name);
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> This PMD adds support for Mellanox ConnectX-3-based adapters through the
> verbs framework. It relies on external libraries (libibverbs and user space
> driver libmlx4) and kernel support to do so.
>
> While these libraries and kernel modules are available on OpenFabrics
> Alliance's website [1] and provided by package managers on most
> distributions, this PMD requires Ethernet extensions that may not be
> supported at the moment (this is a work in progress).
>
> Mellanox OFED [2] includes the necessary support and should be used in the
> meantime. For DPDK, only libibverbs, libmlx4 and mlnx-ofed-kernel packages
> are required from that distribution.
>
> The following kernel modules must be loaded before using this PMD:
>
> - mlx4_core (hardware driver, does global initialization)
> - mlx4_en (Ethernet device driver)
> - mlx4_ib (InfiniBand device driver)
> - ib_uverbs (user space driver for verbs)
>
> [1] https://www.openfabrics.org/
> [2]
> http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers
>
> v2:
> - Include minor bugfix for VLAN filtering.
> - Add maintainers entry.
> - Add documentation.
>
> v3:
> - Add script and documentation to MAINTAINERS.
> - Make cosmetic changes to copyright notices.
> - Remove unwanted executable bits.
> - Fix coding style and typos found by checkpatch.
> - Add shared library compilation support.
>
> Adrien Mazarguil (3):
> scripts: check features to generate configuration header
> mlx4: new poll mode driver
> doc: add librte_pmd_mlx4 documentation
>
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +
> config/common_bsdapp | 11 +
> config/common_linuxapp | 11 +
> doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst | 1 +
> doc/guides/prog_guide/mlx4_poll_mode_drv.rst | 326 ++
> doc/guides/prog_guide/source_org.rst | 1 +
> lib/Makefile | 1 +
> lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/Makefile | 121 +
> lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.c | 4749
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.h | 165 +
> lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/rte_pmd_mlx4_version.map | 4 +
> mk/rte.app.mk | 8 +
> scripts/auto-config-h.sh | 136 +
> 13 files changed, 5540 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/mlx4_poll_mode_drv.rst
> create mode 100644 lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/Makefile
> create mode 100644 lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.c
> create mode 100644 lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/mlx4.h
> create mode 100644 lib/librte_pmd_mlx4/rte_pmd_mlx4_version.map
> create mode 100755 scripts/auto-config-h.sh
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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Gleb.
