1. OCTEONTX Board Support Package

This doc has information about steps to setup octeontx platform and information about common offload hw block drivers of Cavium OCTEONTX SoC family.

More information about SoC can be found at Cavium, Inc Official Website.

1.1. Common Offload HW Block Drivers

  1. Eventdev Driver See :doc: ../eventdevs/octeontx.rst for octeontx ssovf eventdev driver information.
  2. Mempool Driver See :doc: ../mempool/octeontx.rst for octeontx fpavf mempool driver information.

1.2. Steps To Setup Platform

There are three main pre-prerequisites for setting up Platform drivers on OCTEONTX compatible board:

  1. OCTEONTX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks

    The OCTEONTX Linux kernel drivers (includes the required PF driver for the Platform drivers) are available on Github at octeontx-kmod along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions.

  2. ARM64 Tool Chain

    For example, the aarch64 Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from here.

  3. Rootfile system

    Any aarch64 supporting filesystem can be used. For example, Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz.

    As an alternative method, Platform drivers can also be executed using images provided as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary to bring up a OCTEONTX board.

    SDK and related information can be obtained from: Cavium support site.

  • Follow the DPDK :doc: ../linux_gsg/index.rst to setup the basic DPDK environment.