From: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>
The required dependencies for mana from rdma-core and Linux kernel have
been released. Add those information to the doc.
Fixes: 517ed6e2d590 ("net/mana: add basic driver with build environment")
Signed-off-by: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mana.rst | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
index 005c0b2ca7..341146c4e7 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ and must be installed separately:
It allows slow and privileged operations
(context initialization, hardware resources allocations)
to be managed by the kernel and fast operations to never leave user space.
+ The minimum required rdma-core version is v44.
In most cases, rdma-core is shipped as a package with an OS distribution.
User can also install the upstream version of the rdma-core from
@@ -39,15 +40,14 @@ and must be installed separately:
Low-level user space driver library
for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter devices,
it is automatically loaded by libibverbs.
-
- The support of MANA is not merged in rdma-core 42.
+ The minimum required version of rdma-core with libmana is v44.
- **Kernel modules**
They provide the kernel-side verbs API and low level device drivers
that manage actual hardware initialization
and resources sharing with user space processes.
- The minimum required Linux kernel version is 6.1.
+ The minimum required Linux kernel version is 6.2.
Unlike most other PMDs, these modules must remain loaded
and bound to their devices:
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ and must be installed separately:
- mana_ib: InifiniBand device driver.
- ib_uverbs: user space driver for verbs (entry point for libibverbs).
- The support of MANA is planned in Linux 6.2.
-
Driver compilation and testing
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2.17.1
