* **API documentation**
The API documentation explains how to use the public DPDK functions.
- The `API index page <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/>`_ shows the generated API documentation with related groups of functions.
+ The `API index page <http://doc.dpdk.org/api/>`_ shows the generated API documentation with related groups of functions.
The API documentation should be updated via Doxygen comments when new functions are added.
sudo apt-get -y install doxygen
# Red Hat/Fedora.
- sudo yum -y install doxygen
+ sudo dnf -y install doxygen
`Sphinx`_ is a Python documentation tool for converting RST files to Html or to PDF (via LaTeX).
For full support with figure and table captioning the latest version of Sphinx can be installed as follows:
# Ubuntu/Debian.
sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
sudo pip install --upgrade sphinx
+ sudo pip install --upgrade sphinx_rtd_theme
# Red Hat/Fedora.
- sudo yum -y install python-pip
+ sudo dnf -y install python-pip
sudo pip install --upgrade sphinx
+ sudo pip install --upgrade sphinx_rtd_theme
For further information on getting started with Sphinx see the `Sphinx Tutorial <http://sphinx-doc.org/tutorial.html>`_.
sudo apt-get -y install inkscape
# Red Hat/Fedora.
- sudo yum -y install inkscape
+ sudo dnf -y install inkscape
`TexLive <http://www.tug.org/texlive/>`_ is an installation package for Tex/LaTeX.
It is used to generate the PDF versions of the documentation.
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-latex-extra
# Red Hat/Fedora, selective install.
- sudo yum -y install texlive-collection-latexextra
+ sudo dnf -y install texlive-collection-latexextra
Build commands
For long literal lines that exceed that limit try to wrap the text at sensible locations.
For example a long command line could be documented like this and still work if copied directly from the docs::
- build/app/testpmd -c7 -n3 --vdev=eth_pcap0,iface=eth0 \
- --vdev=eth_pcap1,iface=eth1 \
+ build/app/testpmd -c7 -n3 --vdev=net_pcap0,iface=eth0 \
+ --vdev=net_pcap1,iface=eth1 \
-- -i --nb-cores=2 --nb-ports=2 \
--total-num-mbufs=2048
* @param devargs
* A pointer to a strings array describing the new device
* to be attached. The strings should be a pci address like
- * `0000:01:00.0` or **virtual** device name like `eth_pcap0`.
+ * `0000:01:00.0` or **virtual** device name like `net_pcap0`.
* @param port_id
* A pointer to a port identifier actually attached.
*
* Doxygen supports Markdown style syntax such as bold, italics, fixed width text and lists.
For example the second line in the ``devargs`` parameter in the previous example will be rendered as:
- The strings should be a pci address like ``0000:01:00.0`` or **virtual** device name like ``eth_pcap0``.
+ The strings should be a pci address like ``0000:01:00.0`` or **virtual** device name like ``net_pcap0``.
* Use ``-`` instead of ``*`` for lists within the Doxygen comment since the latter can get confused with the comment delimiter.
*/
In the API documentation the functions will be rendered as links, see the
- `online section of the rte_ethdev.h docs <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html>`_ that contains the above text.
+ `online section of the rte_ethdev.h docs <http://doc.dpdk.org/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html>`_ that contains the above text.
* The ``@see`` keyword can be used to create a *see also* link to another file or library.
This directive should be placed on one line at the bottom of the documentation section.