.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc 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 `_. Common Offload HW Block Drivers ------------------------------- 1. **Eventdev Driver** See :doc:`../eventdevs/octeontx` for octeontx ssovf eventdev driver information. 2. **Mempool Driver** See :doc:`../mempool/octeontx` for octeontx fpavf mempool driver information. 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 ``_. 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` to setup the basic DPDK environment.