09/10/2020 12:21, Ciara Power: > Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now > removed in the documentation. > > Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.po...@intel.com> > --- > Compilation options > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -These options can be modified in the ``.config`` file. > - > -- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_VDPA_PMD`` (default **n**) > - > - Toggle compilation of librte_pmd_mlx5 itself. > - > -- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN`` (default **n**) > - > - Build PMD with additional code to make it loadable without hard > - dependencies on **libibverbs** nor **libmlx5**, which may not be installed > - on the target system. > - > - In this mode, their presence is still required for it to run properly, > - however their absence won't prevent a DPDK application from starting (with > - ``CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB`` disabled) and they won't show up as > - missing with ``ldd(1)``. > - > - It works by moving these dependencies to a purpose-built rdma-core "glue" > - plug-in which must either be installed in a directory whose name is based > - on ``CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` suffixed with ``-glue`` if set, or in a > - standard location for the dynamic linker (e.g. ``/lib``) if left to the > - default empty string (``""``). > - > - This option has no performance impact. > - > -- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_STATIC`` (default **n**) > - > - Embed static flavor of the dependencies **libibverbs** and **libmlx5** > - in the PMD shared library or the executable static binary.
It is completely removing some information which could be kept if mentioning the meson option "ibverbs_link".
