[ovs-dev] Building OVS DPDK debian package

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 09:33:47AM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:47 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 04:15:06PM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:06 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:03:06AM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> > > > > I am going through OVS 2.11.90 document to build Debian package on
> > Ubuntu
> > > > > 16.04.4.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/distributions/
> > > > >
> > > > > where it claims to have OVS+DPDK debian package. Snippets below
> > > > > /**************************
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. For DPDK datapath, Open vSwitch with DPDK support is bundled in
> > the
> > > > > package openvswitch-switch-dpdk.
> > > >
> > > > This seems to be true for Ubuntu but not for Debian or for upstream
> > Open
> > > > vSwitch.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks. I am building OVS(2.11.90 latest git source)+DPDK(18.11.2)
> > package
> > > on Ubuntu and it doesn't seem to work.  I have set
> > DATAPATH_CONFIGURE_OPTS =
> > > --with-dpdk="<DPDK-DIR>".
> >
> > Yes.  The documentation is wrong.  (That's what I was trying to say
> > above, too.)
> >
> 
> Got it. Thanks.

I sent a patch to update the documentation:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-July/360954.html