doc: update mlxreg command arguments for recent versions

Message ID 20230703074820.502473-1-alialnu@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
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Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
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Series doc: update mlxreg command arguments for recent versions |

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Ali Alnubani July 3, 2023, 7:48 a.m. UTC
  Recent versions of the command require vhca_id and all_vhca
to be set with the --indexes arg.

Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Raslan Darawsheh July 3, 2023, 2:07 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 10:48 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update mlxreg command arguments for recent versions
> 
> Recent versions of the command require vhca_id and all_vhca to be set with
> the --indexes arg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 7a137d5f6a..68ecdbec15 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -1887,9 +1887,15 @@  The procedure below is an example of using a ConnectX-5 adapter card (pf0) with
         $ ip link set p0 vf 0 trust on
         $ ip link set p0 vf 1 trust on
 
-#. Configure all VFs using mlxreg::
+#. Configure all VFs using mlxreg:
 
-   $ mlxreg -d /dev/mst/mt4121_pciconf0 --reg_name VHCA_TRUST_LEVEL --yes --set "all_vhca=0x1,trust_level=0x1"
+      - For MFT >= 4.21::
+
+        $ mlxreg -d /dev/mst/mt4121_pciconf0 --reg_name VHCA_TRUST_LEVEL --yes --indexes 'all_vhca=0x1,vhca_id=0x0' --set 'trust_level=0x1'
+
+      - For MFT < 4.21::
+
+        $ mlxreg -d /dev/mst/mt4121_pciconf0 --reg_name VHCA_TRUST_LEVEL --yes --set "all_vhca=0x1,trust_level=0x1"
 
    .. note::