doc: nics guide

Create nics guide by moving chapters about Intel and Mellanox NICs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>

doc: move Xen guide out of programmers guide

Xen is an environment comparable to Linux and FreeBSD which
have their own guide.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: S

doc: move Xen guide out of programmers guide

Xen is an environment comparable to Linux and FreeBSD which
have their own guide.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>

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doc: update mbuf section of programmers guide

In Release 1.8, the mbuf structure was significantly reworked to add
extra information, leading to the structure being split across two
cache lines, and

doc: update mbuf section of programmers guide

In Release 1.8, the mbuf structure was significantly reworked to add
extra information, leading to the structure being split across two
cache lines, and the data pointer being replaced by an offset. The
description of the library in the programmer's guide document needs
to be updated to take account of these changes.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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doc: fix typos in ring lib

Ring library section in PG had a couple of typos,
in the text and in one of the images

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Ire

doc: fix typos in ring lib

Ring library section in PG had a couple of typos,
in the text and in one of the images

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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doc: add bsd license to link bonding svgs

The bsd license was missing from the link bonding svg files.

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.

doc: add bsd license to link bonding svgs

The bsd license was missing from the link bonding svg files.

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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doc: update bonding

Adding details for link status interrupts and link status polling.
Adding details for mode 4 / mode 5
Tidying up rst document to conform to 80 character line limit
Adding diagram

doc: update bonding

Adding details for link status interrupts and link status polling.
Adding details for mode 4 / mode 5
Tidying up rst document to conform to 80 character line limit
Adding diagrams to explain bonding modes
Removed link_bonding.png file

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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doc: programmers guide

The 1.7 DPDK_Prog_Guide document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the

doc: programmers guide

The 1.7 DPDK_Prog_Guide document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
The top level index file has been modified to include this guide.

This document contains some png image files. If any of these png files are modified
they should be replaced with an svg file.

This is the sixth document from a set of 6 documents.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

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