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Introduction
============
-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.
-The document describes how to compile and run an Intel® DPDK application in a FreeBSD* application (bsdapp) environment,
-without going deeply into detail.
+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 (freebsd) environment, without going
+deeply into detail.
-For a comprehensive guide to installing and using FreeBSD*, the following handbook is available from the FreeBSD* Documentation Project:
+For a comprehensive guide to installing and using FreeBSD, the following
+handbook is available from the FreeBSD Documentation Project:
+`FreeBSD Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>`_.
-`http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>`_
+.. note::
+
+ DPDK is now available as part of the FreeBSD ports collection and as a pre-built package.
+ Installing via the ports collection or FreeBSD `pkg` infrastructure is now the recommended
+ way to install DPDK on FreeBSD, and is documented in the next chapter, :ref:`install_from_ports`.
-DocumentationRoadmap
---------------------
+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.
+* **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 software.
+* **Getting Started Guide** (this document): Describes how to install and
+ 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 software architecture and how to use it (through examples),
+ specifically in a Linux* application (linux) 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 kit and an application)
- and guidelines for porting an application
+ * 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 for new development
+ * Optimizations used in the software and those that should be considered
+ for new development
A glossary of terms is also provided.
-* **API Reference**: Provides detailed information about Intel® DPDK functions, data structures and other programming constructs.
+* **API Reference**: Provides detailed information about DPDK functions,
+ data structures and other programming constructs.
* **Sample Applications User Guide**: Describes a set of sample applications.
- Each chapter describes a sample application that showcases specific functionality and provides instructions on how to compile,
- run and use the sample application.
-
-.. note::
-
- These documents are available for download as a separate documentation package at the same location as the Intel® DPDK code package.
+ Each chapter describes a sample application that showcases specific functionality
+ and provides instructions on how to compile, run and use the sample application.
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