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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<chapter id="hw_features">
  <title>Hardware Features</title>

  <para>Enea NFV Core <xi:include
  href="../../s_docsrc_common/pardoc-distro.xml"
  xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  xpointer="element(EneaNFV_REL_VER/1)" /> leverages certain Hardware features
  within the ThunderX SoCs, the most important being DPDK and SR-IOV.</para>

  <para>Enea's mission, through the OPNFV Armband project, is to extend the
  OPNFV capabilities on aarch64 commercial servers, including the Cavium
  ThunderX networking servers by enabling DPDK and SR-IOV capabilities, which
  do not work by default.</para>
</chapter>