Hi George On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:38:11AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that DPDK 17.11 brought some changes regarding the Mellanox > drivers, hence my compilation script does not work for this version of DPDK. > > Specifically, the release notes of this version state: > > "Enabled the PMD to run on top of upstream Linux kernel and rdma-core libs, > removing the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries." > > Previously, I was setting CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD but now, with this > option set I get build errors in drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c. > > Could you please provide some guidance on how DPDK is expected to work > without OFED? > Is there any other configuration required?
You should find anything useful in the NIC documentation [1], you have two possibilities, keep using the distribution and install MLNX_OFED 4.2, or update the Linux Kernel and use RDMA-Core, both are explained in he section "21.5.1. Installation". Regards, [1] https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.html -- Nélio Laranjeiro 6WIND
