15630257fSFerruh Yigit.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 25630257fSFerruh Yigit Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. 3dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger 4dacdbfa4SBernard IremongerIntroduction 5dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger============ 6dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger 79c587847SSiobhan ButlerThis document contains instructions for installing and configuring the 89c587847SSiobhan ButlerData Plane Development Kit (DPDK) software. It is designed to get customers 99c587847SSiobhan Butlerup and running quickly and describes how to compile and run a 10218c4e68SBruce RichardsonDPDK application in a FreeBSD application (freebsd) environment, without going 11f9e2411aSBruce Richardsondeeply into detail. 12dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger 13728c9e54SJohn McNamaraFor a comprehensive guide to installing and using FreeBSD, the following 14728c9e54SJohn McNamarahandbook is available from the FreeBSD Documentation Project: 15728c9e54SJohn McNamara`FreeBSD Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>`_. 16dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger 173e7b87ddSBruce Richardson.. note:: 183e7b87ddSBruce Richardson 19be76aa58SBruce Richardson DPDK is now available as part of the FreeBSD ports collection and as a pre-built package. 20be76aa58SBruce Richardson Installing via the ports collection or FreeBSD `pkg` infrastructure is now the recommended 21be76aa58SBruce Richardson way to install DPDK on FreeBSD, and is documented in the next chapter, :ref:`install_from_ports`. 223e7b87ddSBruce Richardson 23dacdbfa4SBernard IremongerDocumentation Roadmap 243e7b87ddSBruce Richardson--------------------- 25dacdbfa4SBernard Iremonger 26*5cfaa3c3SBruce Richardson.. include:: ../linux_gsg/doc_roadmap.include.rst 27