1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
4 OCTEONTX Board Support Package
5 ==============================
7 This doc has information about steps to setup octeontx platform
8 and information about common offload hw block drivers of
9 **Cavium OCTEONTX** SoC family.
12 More information about SoC can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
13 <http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
15 Common Offload HW Block Drivers
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18 1. **Eventdev Driver**
19 See :doc: `../eventdevs/octeontx.rst` for octeontx ssovf eventdev driver
23 See :doc: `../mempool/octeontx.rst` for octeontx fpavf mempool driver
26 Steps To Setup Platform
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29 There are three main pre-prerequisites for setting up Platform drivers on
30 OCTEONTX compatible board:
32 1. **OCTEONTX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks**
34 The OCTEONTX Linux kernel drivers (includes the required PF driver for the
35 Platform drivers) are available on Github at `octeontx-kmod <https://github.com/caviumnetworks/octeontx-kmod>`_
36 along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions.
38 2. **ARM64 Tool Chain**
40 For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from
41 `here <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2017.01/aarch64-linux-gnu>`_.
43 3. **Rootfile system**
45 Any *aarch64* supporting filesystem can be used. For example,
46 Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained
47 from `<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz>`_.
49 As an alternative method, Platform drivers can also be executed using images provided
50 as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary
51 to bring up a OCTEONTX board.
53 SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
55 - Follow the DPDK :doc: `../linux_gsg/index.rst` to setup the basic DPDK environment.