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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
+
+Platform Specific Guides
+========================
+
+The following are platform specific guides and setup information.
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+    :numbered:
+
+    octeontx
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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
+
+OCTEONTX Board Support Package
+==============================
+
+This doc has information about steps to setup octeontx platform
+and information about common offload hw block drivers of
+**Cavium OCTEONTX** SoC family.
+
+
+More information about SoC can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
+<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
+
+Common Offload HW Block Drivers
+-------------------------------
+
+1. **Eventdev Driver**
+   See :doc:`../eventdevs/octeontx` for octeontx ssovf eventdev driver
+   information.
+
+2. **Mempool Driver**
+   See :doc:`../mempool/octeontx` for octeontx fpavf mempool driver
+   information.
+
+Steps To Setup Platform
+-----------------------
+
+There are three main pre-prerequisites for setting up Platform drivers on
+OCTEONTX compatible board:
+
+1. **OCTEONTX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks**
+
+   The OCTEONTX Linux kernel drivers (includes the required PF driver for the
+   Platform drivers) are available on Github at `octeontx-kmod <https://github.com/caviumnetworks/octeontx-kmod>`_
+   along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions.
+
+2. **ARM64 Tool Chain**
+
+   For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from
+   `here <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2017.01/aarch64-linux-gnu>`_.
+
+3. **Rootfile system**
+
+   Any *aarch64* supporting filesystem can be used. For example,
+   Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained
+   from `<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz>`_.
+
+   As an alternative method, Platform drivers can also be executed using images provided
+   as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary
+   to bring up a OCTEONTX board.
+
+   SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
+
+- Follow the DPDK :doc:`../linux_gsg/index` to setup the basic DPDK environment.