Removing make build instructions from the platform guide
as building DPDK sources using 'make' will be deprecated
in future releases.
Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hka...@marvell.com>
---
doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst | 52 ++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
index 7d1cb647d..57129552e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
@@ -95,18 +95,16 @@ drivers can be compiled with the following steps,
.. code-block:: console
cd <dpdk directory>
- make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
- make
+ meson build
+ ninja -C build
The example applications can be compiled using the following:
.. code-block:: console
cd <dpdk directory>
- export RTE_SDK=$PWD
- export RTE_TARGET=build
- cd examples/<application>
- make
+ meson build -Dexamples=<application>
+ ninja -C build
Cross Compilation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -115,47 +113,41 @@ The DPDK applications can be cross-compiled on any x86
based platform. The
OCTEON TX SDK need to be installed on the build system. The SDK package will
provide the required toolchain etc.
-Refer to :doc:`../linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64` for further steps on
-compilation. The 'host' & 'CC' to be used in the commands would change,
-in addition to the paths to which libnuma related files have to be
-copied.
+Refer to :doc:`../linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64` for generic arm64
details.
The following steps can be used to perform cross-compilation with OCTEON TX
SDK 6.2.0 patch 3:
+meson build
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
.. code-block:: console
cd <sdk_install_dir>
source env-setup
- git clone https://github.com/numactl/numactl.git
- cd numactl
- git checkout v2.0.11 -b v2.0.11
- ./autogen.sh
- autoconf -i
- ./configure --host=aarch64-thunderx-linux
CC=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=<numa install dir>
- make install
-
-The above steps will prepare build system with numa additions. Now this build
system can be used
-to build applications for **OCTEON TX** :sup:`®` platforms.
+The above steps will prepare build system with required toolchain. Now this
build
+system can be used to build applications for **OCTEON TX** :sup:`®` platforms.
.. code-block:: console
cd <dpdk directory>
- export RTE_SDK=$PWD
- export RTE_KERNELDIR=$THUNDER_ROOT/linux/kernel/linux
- make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
- make -j CROSS=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu- CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n
CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n EXTRA_CFLAGS="-isystem <numa_install_dir>/include"
EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L<numa_install_dir>/lib -lnuma"
-
-If NUMA support is not required, it can be disabled as explained in
-:doc:`../linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64`.
+ meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc
+ ninja -C build
-Following steps could be used in that case.
+The example applications can be compiled using the following:
.. code-block:: console
- make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
- make CROSS=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu-
+ cd <dpdk directory>
+ meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc
-Dexamples=<application>
+ ninja -C build
+
+.. note::
+ By default, meson cross compilation uses ``aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc``
toolchain,
+ if OCTEON TX SDK 6.2.0 patch 3 is available then it can be used by
+ overriding the c, cpp, ar, strip ``binaries`` attributes to respective
thunderx
+ toolchain binaries in ``config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc`` file.
SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site
<https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
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