[ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:31:30AM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mehdi Rashidi <fanttazio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I read the document couple of times but I found it quit vague maybe
> > because of lack of knowledge.
> >  My confusion is that whether all those components (
> > ​​
> > ofproto-dpif, dpif, dpif provider) are needed all together if I want to
> > port OVS to a new hardware or not.
> >
> ​
> OK. I made a mistake here. By ofproto-dpif I meant "ofproto provider".​ My
> questions may look daft but that would be a great help for me to get
> answer. So far I've learnt so much. Thank you

You have the following choices:

        * Implement only a netdev-provider.

        * Implement a netdev-provider and a dpif-provider.

        * Implement a netdev-provider and an ofproto-provider.