section of :ref:`the DPDK documentation <linux_gsg>` or refer to *DPDK
Release Notes*.
-Build options
--------------
-
-The default PMD configuration available in the common_linux configuration file:
-
-CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SOFTNIC=y
-
-Once the DPDK is built, all the DPDK applications include support for the
-Soft NIC PMD.
Soft NIC PMD arguments
----------------------
.. code-block:: console
- ./testpmd -c 0x7 -s 0x4 --vdev 'net_softnic0,firmware=<script path>/firmware.cli,cpu_id=0,conn_port=8086' -- -i
+ ./dpdk-testpmd -c 0x7 -s 0x4 --vdev 'net_softnic0,firmware=<script path>/firmware.cli,cpu_id=0,conn_port=8086' -- -i
--portmask=0x2
.. code-block:: console
.. code-block:: console
- ./x86_64-native-linux-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0x7 -s 0x4 -n 4 \
+ ./<build_dir>/app/dpdk-testpmd -c 0x7 -s 0x4 -n 4 \
--vdev 'net_softnic0, \
firmware=./drivers/net/softnic/ \
firmware.cli, \