Introduction
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-This document contains instructions for installing and configuring the Intel®
-Data Plane Development Kit(Intel® DPDK) software. It is designed to get customers
-up and running quickly and describes how to compile and run an Intel®
+This document contains instructions for installing and configuring the
+Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) software. It is designed to get customers
+up and running quickly and describes how to compile and run a
DPDK application in a FreeBSD* application (bsdapp) environment, without going
deeply into detail.
.. note::
- The Intel® DPDK is now available as part of the FreeBSD ports collection.
+ The DPDK is now available as part of the FreeBSD ports collection.
Installing via the ports collection infrastructure is now the recommended
- way to install the Intel® DPDK on FreeBSD, and is documented in the
+ way to install the DPDK on FreeBSD, and is documented in the
next chapter, :ref:`install_from_ports`.
Documentation Roadmap
---------------------
-The following is a list of Intel® DPDK documents in the suggested reading order:
+The following is a list of DPDK documents in the suggested reading order:
* **Release Notes** : Provides release-specific information, including supported
features, limitations, fixed issues, known issues and so on. Also, provides the
answers to frequently asked questions in FAQ format.
* **Getting Started Guide** (this document): Describes how to install and
- configure the Intel® DPDK; designed to get users up and running quickly with the
+ configure the DPDK; designed to get users up and running quickly with the
software.
* **Programmer's Guide**: Describes:
* The software architecture and how to use it (through examples),
specifically in a Linux* application (linuxapp) environment
- * The content of the Intel® DPDK, the build system (including the commands
- that can be used in the root Intel® DPDK Makefile to build the development
+ * The content of the DPDK, the build system (including the commands
+ that can be used in the root DPDK Makefile to build the development
kit and an application) and guidelines for porting an application
* Optimizations used in the software and those that should be considered
A glossary of terms is also provided.
-* **API Reference**: Provides detailed information about Intel® DPDK functions,
+* **API Reference**: Provides detailed information about DPDK functions,
data structures and other programming constructs.
* **Sample Applications User Guide**: Describes a set of sample applications.
.. note::
These documents are available for download as a separate documentation
- package at the same location as the Intel® DPDK code package.
+ package at the same location as the DPDK code package.