The documentation needs extra steps for customers to explicitly show how to install libcrypto, which is needed for QAT. It requires the commands to install libcrypto for Ubuntu and RHEL.
Signed-off-by: Samina Arshad <[email protected]> --- .mailmap | 1 + doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap index 0443e461a9..6a0c1924eb 100644 --- a/.mailmap +++ b/.mailmap @@ -1179,6 +1179,7 @@ Salem Sol <[email protected]> Sameh Gobriel <[email protected]> Sam Grove <[email protected]> Samik Gupta <[email protected]> +Samina Arshad <[email protected]> Samuel Gauthier <[email protected]> Sangjin Han <[email protected]> Sankar Chokkalingam <[email protected]> diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst index ef754106a8..a3694f7131 100644 --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst @@ -234,6 +234,20 @@ These are the build configuration options affecting QAT, and their default value Both QAT SYM PMD and QAT ASYM PMD have an external dependency on libcrypto, so are not built by default. +Ubuntu + +.. code-block:: console + + apt install libssl-dev + + +RHEL + +.. code-block:: console + + dnf install openssl-devel + + The QAT compressdev PMD has no external dependencies, so is built by default. The number of VFs per PF varies - see table below. If multiple QAT packages are -- 2.25.1
