On 10/9/2021 1:20 PM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
2021-10-09 12:38 (UTC-0700), Kadam, Pallavi:
On 10/8/2021 2:11 PM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
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+virt2phys
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-1. From Device Manager, Action menu, select "Add legacy hardware".
-2. It will launch the "Add Hardware Wizard". Click "Next".
-3. Select second option "Install the hardware that I manually select
- from a list (Advanced)".
-4. On the next screen, "Kernel bypass" will be shown as a device class.
-5. Select it, and click "Next".
-6. The previously installed drivers will now be installed for the
- "Virtual to physical address translator" device.
+Access to physical addresses is provided by a kernel-mode driver, virt2phys.
+It is mandatory for allocating physically-contiguous memory which is required
+by hardware PMDs.
Should we add specific link to virt2phys README in this section as well?
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/tree/windows/README.rst
This link is given above and I consider it general information for all
drivers. However, reading it carefully, I think docs in dpdk-kmods could be
restructured as well:
* Keep windows/README.rst unchanged, except for Device Manager steps,
which are actually specific to virt2phys.
* Create windows/virt2phys/README.rst with instructions above.
* Change windows/netuio/README.rst: remove the bulk of its content, as it
repeats generic instructions, keep netuio-specific Device Manager part.
Then a specific link for virt2phys here would make sense
and there will be even less duplication in dpdk-kmods.
If no one objects, I'll do this in v2.
Thanks!
Sounds good. Thanks, Dmitry!
