From b6938efd0b8a3a85bb0b65091eafbb79d8165108 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lance Hartmann Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:31:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify alternate dpdk options Make clear that building with an alternate DPDK than the SPDK's dpdk submodule is not limited to pointing only to a full DPDK directory of sources, but also supports the ability to build against pre-built libraries and includes provided by an installation of the DPDK packages available from several distro's. Change-Id: I40cd8132e45dbd366a4c93c891a95e8952b6620d Signed-off-by: Lance Hartmann Reviewed-on: https://review.gerrithub.io/425003 Chandler-Test-Pool: SPDK Automated Test System Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins Reviewed-by: Ben Walker Reviewed-by: Jim Harris --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d82b9db92..b960f58c4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -132,8 +132,10 @@ make CONFIG_RDMA=y ~~~ Users may wish to use a version of DPDK different from the submodule included -in the SPDK repository. To specify an alternate DPDK installation, run -configure with the --with-dpdk option. For example: +in the SPDK repository. Note, this includes the ability to build not only +from DPDK sources, but also just with the includes and libraries +installed via the dpdk and dpdk-devel packages. To specify an alternate DPDK +installation, run configure with the --with-dpdk option. For example: Linux: