The KNI library is disabled by default in DPDK and is already documented in the programmers guide and also in the sample application guide. There are also in-kernel alternatives to it. Therefore, we can drop the (already fairly minimal) reference to it from the Linux GSG.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst index 0036c542f5..1f19842ddc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst @@ -128,19 +128,6 @@ These generic APIs can work with either TSC or HPET time sources, depending on what is requested by an application call to ``rte_eal_hpet_init()``, if any, and on what is available on the system at runtime. -Loading the DPDK KNI Kernel Module ----------------------------------- - -To run the DPDK Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) sample application, an extra kernel module (the kni module) must be loaded into the running kernel. -The module is found in the kernel/linux sub-directory of the DPDK build directory. -It should be loaded using the insmod command:: - - insmod <build_dir>/kernel/linux/kni/rte_kni.ko - -.. note:: - - See the "Kernel NIC Interface Sample Application" chapter in the *DPDK Sample Applications User Guide* for more details. - Using Linux IOMMU Pass-Through to Run DPDK with Intel\ |reg| VT-d ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 2.32.0
