+ to bring up a OCTEON TX board. Please refer :ref:`setup_platform_using_OCTEON_TX_SDK`.
+
+- Follow the DPDK :doc:`../linux_gsg/index` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
+
+.. _setup_platform_using_OCTEON_TX_SDK:
+
+Setup Platform Using OCTEON TX SDK
+----------------------------------
+
+The OCTEON TX platform drivers can be compiled either natively on
+**OCTEON TX** :sup:`®` board or cross-compiled on an x86 based platform.
+
+The **OCTEON TX** :sup:`®` board must be running the linux kernel based on
+OCTEON TX SDK 6.2.0 patch 3. In this, the PF drivers for all hardware
+offload blocks are already built in.
+
+Native Compilation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If the kernel and modules are cross-compiled and copied to the target board,
+some intermediate binaries required for native build would be missing on the
+target board. To make sure all the required binaries are available in the
+native architecture, the linux sources need to be compiled once natively.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source
+ make menuconfig
+ make
+
+The above steps would rebuild the modules and the required intermediate binaries.
+Once the target is ready for native compilation, the OCTEON TX platform
+drivers can be compiled with the following steps,
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ meson build -Dexamples=<application>
+ ninja -C build
+
+The example applications can be compiled using the following:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ meson build -Dexamples=<application>
+ ninja -C build
+
+Cross Compilation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+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 generic arm64 details.
+
+The following steps can be used to perform cross-compilation with OCTEON TX
+SDK 6.2.0 patch 3:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ cd <sdk_install_dir>
+ source env-setup
+
+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>
+ meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc
+ ninja -C build
+
+The example applications can be compiled using the following:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ cd <dpdk directory>
+ meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc -Dexamples=<application>
+ ninja -C build
+
+.. note::