On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi OpenvSwitch Devs > > Ubuntu Saucy development has been open for a while and the Ubuntu kernel > team are currently targeting either Linux 3.9 or 3.10 for this release. > > Currently the 1.9.0 DKMS source is unhappy with 3.9 - I've hacked on it for > a bit and although it definitely possible to backport/fixup enough to make > it work with Linux >= 3.9 I wondered whether 1.10 would make a better base; > I was able to get things up and running with the following commits: > > f8dfbcb77d7678fa19b4de0f94118b713f74ffb8: datapath: hlist: drop the node > parameter from iterators > 29285b6286493965a36ae3eff5983457f85cd087: datapath: Backport simplified > hlist iterators. > > plus the normal change to datapath.c to increase the range of supported > kernel versions. > > Also I think the VXLAN support in 1.10 is of interest to OpenStack users > (the Havana release should grow support for this). The version of > OpenvSwitch that ships with Saucy will also be provided to support OpenStack > Havana on Ubuntu 12.04.
I would agree that 1.10 is probably the way to go at this point due to VXLAN support (note that it's only point-to-point, no multicast). However, as Pravin mentioned it still needs some additional patches to support 3.9. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
