Hi Gerry, Starting V20.11 the build system was switched to use meson only, And if you have necessary packages for MLX5 (a.k. rdma-core) it will be built automatically.
As for your question if you still don't need to bind mlx5 driver that's true, its still valid. Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh > -----Original Message----- > From: users <users-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Gerry Wan > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 1:22 AM > To: users@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-users] Enable MLX5 driver v20.11 > > Hello, > I am trying to update my DPDK version from 20.08 to 20.11. I am using the > mlx5 driver, and previously to enable it I had to set > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y in config/common_base. In 20.11, I see > no > option to do so. I was able to build my application (and the sample > applications), but running rte_eth_dev_count_avail() returns 0 and cannot > find any ports. > > The steps I did to build DPDK from source were: > > $ meson build > > $ cd build > > $ sudo ninja install > > $ sudo ldconfig > > > Normally I would edit dpdk-20.xx/config/common_base before meson build, > but > that file is gone. > > What are the steps I need to take to enable mlx5 driver? I also recall that > I don't need to bind the mlx5 driver, is that still the case? > > Thanks
