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Subject: Re: [PATCH 50/50] doc: added documents
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:35:27 +0000
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On 2/21/2017 9:27 AM, Shijith Thotton wrote:
> Added doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst and
> doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini. Updated release notes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini  |  29 ++++
>  doc/guides/nics/index.rst              |   1 +
>  doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst           | 269 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst |   3 +

The web page that list the supported NICs [1] also needs to be updated,
in a separate patch.

[1]
http://dpdk.org/doc/nics

>  4 files changed, 302 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..eac32ba
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +;
> +; Supported features of the 'LiquidIO' network poll mode driver.
> +;
> +; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
> +;
> +[Features]
> +Link status          = Y
> +Link status event    = Y
> +MTU update           = Y
> +Jumbo frame          = Y
> +Scattered Rx         = Y
> +Allmulticast mode    = Y
> +RSS hash             = Y
> +RSS key update       = Y
> +RSS reta update      = Y
> +SR-IOV               = Y
> +VLAN filter          = Y
> +CRC offload          = Y
> +VLAN offload         = P
> +L3 checksum offload  = Y
> +L4 checksum offload  = Y
> +Inner L3 checksum    = Y
> +Inner L4 checksum    = Y
> +Basic stats          = Y
> +Extended stats       = Y
> +Linux UIO            = Y
> +Linux VFIO           = Y
> +x86-64               = Y

No arm support?

> +Usage doc            = Y
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/index.rst b/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
> index 5248625..37e6416 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Network Interface Controller Drivers
>      ixgbe
>      intel_vf
>      kni
> +    liquidio
>      mlx4
>      mlx5
>      nfp
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst b/doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..4bf586b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
<...>
> +LiquidIO VF Poll Mode Driver
> +============================
> +
> +The LiquidIO VF PMD library(librte_pmd_lio) provides poll mode driver support for
> +Cavium LiquidIO® II server adapter VFs. PF management and VF creation can be
> +done using kernel driver.

Is it possible to provide a link here to point NIC documentation.