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46 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
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72 * Removed duplicated set of commands for RX offloading configuration from app/testpmd:
73 “port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|
74 hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off”.
76 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead in order to enable or disable Rx
77 offloading on all Rx queues of a port is:
78 "port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|
79 timestamp|vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off"
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133 librte_bitratestats.so.2
136 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
137 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
140 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
143 librte_compressdev.so.1
144 librte_cryptodev.so.8
145 librte_distributor.so.1
150 librte_flow_classify.so.1
159 librte_latencystats.so.1
173 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
174 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
176 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
177 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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