[ovs-discuss] building DPDK support for OVS

[Joel Wirāmu Pauling]

IIRC there are several out of head changes to the dpdk tree, including out
of kernel changes. Work has been on-going to get all the bits included in
HEAD for ovs and Kernel but it's not yet complete. Hence the existence of
the separate tree.

On 3 November 2016 at 13:14, Shivaram Mysore <shivaram.mysore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The current model  that I know for building DPDK enabled OVS is to just
> git clone the OVS tree and build + install everything. This involves
> installing all kinds of tool chain packages required for machines.
>
> Currently, major Linux distributions support package installation of OVS.
> I was hoping if there was a just a source package for corresponding DPDK
> modules.  This will allow me to just build only the DPDK portion of the
> kernel module that can work with the installed packages and retain the full
> flexibility of OVS package installation.
>
> Am I missing anything in my thought process?
>
> thanks
>
> /Shivaram
>
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