From: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:21:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: add libnuma as dependency
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~2537
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0667319395899e0cbf155f0307d14214356358ac;p=dpdk.git

doc: add libnuma as dependency

Add libnuma as a dependency to the Linux Getting Started Guide
since it is a new requirement in DPDK 17.08+.

Fixes: 1b72605d2416 ("mem: balanced allocation of hugepages")

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 3a28c9e517..af7a931213 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ for more information on the required changes.
 Compilation of the DPDK
 -----------------------
 
-**Required Tools:**
+**Required Tools and Libraries:**
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
        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 4.9+.
 
+*   libnuma-devel - library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access).
+
 *   Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.