From d6740135f0401f3d67bae762c9013b1cd28d0ea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eoin Breen Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:08:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add instructions to enable qat Signed-off-by: Eoin Breen Signed-off-by: Deepak Kumar Jain Acked-by: Fiona Trahe --- doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst index 92407a5a08..326b228e09 100644 --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst @@ -83,6 +83,17 @@ Installation To use the DPDK QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required. The VF devices exposed by this driver will be used by QAT PMD. +To enable QAT in DPDK, follow the instructions mentioned in +http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html + +Quick instructions as follows: + +.. code-block:: console + + make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc + sed -i 's,\(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT\)=n,\1=y,' build/.config + make + If you are running on kernel 4.4 or greater, see instructions for `Installation using kernel.org driver`_ below. If you are on a kernel earlier than 4.4, see `Installation using 01.org QAT driver`_. -- 2.20.1