doc: fix default mempool option in guides

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / platform / octeontx.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
index 3bde91f..42ddb17 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/platform/octeontx.rst
@@ -94,19 +94,15 @@ drivers can be compiled with the following steps,
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
 
 .. code-block:: console
 

-        cd <dpdk directory>
-        make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc
-        make
+        meson build -Dexamples=<application>
+        ninja -C build

 
 The example applications can be compiled using the following:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
 
 The example applications can be compiled using the following:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 

-        cd <dpdk directory>
-        export RTE_SDK=$PWD
-        export RTE_TARGET=build
-        cd examples/<application>
-        make
+        meson build -Dexamples=<application>
+        ninja -C build

 
 Cross Compilation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Cross Compilation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


@@ -115,10 +111,7 @@ 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.
 
 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 further steps on
-compilation. The 'host' & 'CC' to be used in the commands would change,
-in addition to the paths to which libnuma related files have to be
-copied.
+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:
 
 The following steps can be used to perform cross-compilation with OCTEON TX
 SDK 6.2.0 patch 3:


@@ -128,34 +121,28 @@ SDK 6.2.0 patch 3:
         cd <sdk_install_dir>
         source env-setup
 
         cd <sdk_install_dir>
         source env-setup
 

-        git clone https://github.com/numactl/numactl.git
-        cd numactl
-        git checkout v2.0.11 -b v2.0.11
-        ./autogen.sh
-        autoconf -i
-        ./configure --host=aarch64-thunderx-linux CC=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=<numa install dir>
-        make install
-
-The above steps will prepare build system with numa additions. Now this build system can be used
-to build applications for **OCTEON TX** :sup:`®` platforms.
+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>
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
         cd <dpdk directory>

-        export RTE_SDK=$PWD
-        export RTE_KERNELDIR=$THUNDER_ROOT/linux/kernel/linux
-        make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc
-        make -j CROSS=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu- CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n EXTRA_CFLAGS="-isystem <numa_install_dir>/include" EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L<numa_install_dir>/lib -lnuma"
+        meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc
+        ninja -C build

 
 

-If NUMA support is not required, it can be disabled as explained in
-:doc:`../linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64`.
-
-Following steps could be used in that case.
+The example applications can be compiled using the following:

 
 .. code-block:: console
 
 
 .. code-block:: console
 

-        make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc
-        make CROSS=aarch64-thunderx-linux-gnu-
+        cd <dpdk directory>
+        meson build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc -Dexamples=<application>
+        ninja -C build
+
+.. note::

 
 

+   By default, meson cross compilation uses ``aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc`` toolchain,
+   if OCTEON TX SDK 6.2.0 patch 3 is available then it can be used by
+   overriding the c, cpp, ar, strip ``binaries`` attributes to respective thunderx
+   toolchain binaries in ``config/arm/arm64_thunderx_linux_gcc`` file.

 
 SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
 
 SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.