If the DPDK is being used on an Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series platform,
please consult the *Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series Software for Linux* Getting Started Guide*.
-BIOS Setting Prerequisite
--------------------------
+BIOS Setting Prerequisite on x86
+--------------------------------
For the majority of platforms, no special BIOS settings are needed to use basic DPDK functionality.
However, for additional HPET timer and power management functionality,
* coreutils: cmp, sed, grep, arch
-* gcc: versions 4.5.x or later is recommended.
- On some distributions, some specific compiler flags and linker flags are enabled by default and
- affect performance (- fstack-protector, for example).
- Please refer to the documentation of your distribution and to gcc -dumpspecs.
+* gcc: versions 4.5.x or later is recommended for i686/x86_64. versions 4.8.x or later is recommended
+ for ppc_64 and x86_x32 ABI. On some distributions, some specific compiler flags and linker flags are enabled by
+ default and affect performance (- fstack-protector, for example). Please refer to the documentation
+ of your distribution and to gcc -dumpspecs.
-* libc headers (glibc-devel.i686 / libc6-dev-i386; glibc-devel.x86_64 for 64-bit compilation)
+* libc headers (glibc-devel.i686 / libc6-dev-i386; glibc-devel.x86_64 for 64-bit compilation on Intel
+ architecture; glibc-devel.ppc64 for 64 bit IBM Power architecture;)
-* Linux kernel headers or sources required to build kernel modules. (kernel- devel.x86_64)
+* Linux kernel headers or sources required to build kernel modules. (kernel - devel.x86_64;
+ kernel - devel.ppc64)
* Additional packages required for 32-bit compilation on 64-bit systems are:
- glibc.i686, libgcc.i686, libstdc++.i686 and glibc-devel.i686
+ glibc.i686, libgcc.i686, libstdc++.i686 and glibc-devel.i686 for Intel i686/x86_64;
+
+ glibc.ppc64, libgcc.ppc64, libstdc++.ppc64 and glibc-devel.ppc64 for IBM ppc_64;
+
+.. note::
+
+ x86_x32 ABI is currently supported with distribution packages only on Ubuntu
+ higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported compiler is gcc 4.8+.
+
+.. note::
-* Python, version 2.6 or 2.7, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package
+ Python, version 2.6 or 2.7, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package
**Optional Tools:**
See the icc Installation Guide found in the Documentation directory under the compiler installation.
This release has been tested using version 12.1.
+* IBM® Advance ToolChain for Powerlinux. This is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries
+ which allows users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. To install
+ it, see the IBM official installation document.
+
* libpcap headers and libraries (libpcap-devel) to compile and use the libpcap-based poll-mode driver.
This driver is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y in the build time config file.
For details of the patches needed to use the DPDK with earlier kernel versions,
see the DPDK FAQ included in the *DPDK Release Notes*.
-Note also that Redhat* Linux* 6.2 and 6.3 uses a 2.6.32 kernel that already has all the necessary patches applied.
+Note also that Red hat* Linux* 6.2 and 6.3 uses a 2.6.32 kernel that already has all the necessary patches applied.
* glibc >= 2.7 (for features related to cpuset)
* Kernel configuration
- In the Fedora* OS and other common distributions, such as Ubuntu*, or RedHat Enterprise Linux*,
+ In the Fedora* OS and other common distributions, such as Ubuntu*, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux*,
the vendor supplied kernel configurations can be used to run most DPDK applications.
For other kernel builds, options which should be enabled for DPDK include:
.. note::
- The hugepage sizes that a CPU supports can be determined from the CPU flags.
+ The hugepage sizes that a CPU supports can be determined from the CPU flags on Intel architecture.
If pse exists, 2M hugepages are supported; if pdpe1gb exists, 1G hugepages are supported.
+ On IBM Power architecture, the supported hugepage sizes are 16MB and 16GB.
.. note::