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| author | Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> | 2021-04-18 00:16:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> | 2021-04-22 00:14:11 +0200 |
| commit | c6bd9f4b28b9f6f5c703d2e7498706c1c7116049 (patch) | |
| tree | 966372dc127b3a097d364935a61bc1d02ad9d744 | |
| parent | b7fe612ac1de393f869c9818d5503633c8e96b36 (diff) | |
doc: announce support of Alpine Linux
After many patches in several releases to make DPDK buildable with musl,
and few adjustments for busybox, it is time to show the support of DPDK
built in Alpine Linux.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index dfe8f4ef3b..6994038d45 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -40,31 +40,29 @@ Compilation of the DPDK * General development tools including a supported C compiler such as gcc (version 4.9+) or clang (version 3.4+). * For RHEL/Fedora systems these can be installed using ``dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"`` - * For Ubuntu/Debian systems these can be installed using ``apt install build-essential`` + * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add gcc libc-dev bsd-compat-headers libexecinfo-dev`` * Python 3.5 or later. * Meson (version 0.49.2+) and ninja * ``meson`` & ``ninja-build`` packages in most Linux distributions - * If the packaged version is below the minimum version, the latest versions can be installed from Python's "pip" repository: ``pip3 install meson ninja`` * ``pyelftools`` (version 0.22+) * For Fedora systems it can be installed using ``dnf install python-pyelftools`` - * For RHEL/CentOS systems it can be installed using ``pip3 install pyelftools`` - * For Ubuntu/Debian it can be installed using ``apt install python3-pyelftools`` + * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add py3-elftools`` * Library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access). * ``numactl-devel`` in RHEL/Fedora; - * ``libnuma-dev`` in Debian/Ubuntu; + * ``numactl-dev`` in Alpine Linux .. note:: diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst index 2a1f27235f..b3224dc332 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* **Added Alpine Linux with musl libc support** + + The distribution Alpine Linux, using musl libc and busybox, + got initial support starting with building DPDK without modification. + * **Added phase-fair lock.** Phase-fair lock provides fairness guarantees. |