On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I have a couple comments not really related to this
> specific patch. See below.
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:43:35AM -0700, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
>> With this commit we move our DPDK support to 1.7.0.
>> DPDK binaries (starting with dpdk 1.7.0) should be linked with
>> --whole-archive
>> to include pmd drivers
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <ddiproie...@vmware.com>
>> ---
>> INSTALL.DPDK | 12 ++++++------
>> acinclude.m4 | 13 ++++++++++++-
>> lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 12 ++++--------
>> tests/ovs_client/ovs_client.c | 4 ++--
>> 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/INSTALL.DPDK b/INSTALL.DPDK
>> index c74fa5c..3d062e5 100644
>> --- a/INSTALL.DPDK
>> +++ b/INSTALL.DPDK
>> @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ and "make".
>> Building and Installing:
>> ------------------------
>>
>> -Recommended to use DPDK 1.6.
>> +Recommended to use DPDK 1.7.
>>
>> DPDK:
>> -Set dir i.g.: export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-1.6.0r2
>> +Set dir i.g.: export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-1.7.0
>> cd $DPDK_DIR
>> -update config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc so that dpdk generate
>> single lib file.
>> +update config/common_linuxapp so that dpdk generate single lib file.
>> CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y
>
> Any chance or plans to get OVS compiling without combine_libs?
> I am asking this because Fedora DPDK RPM provides individual libraries
> instead of the combined one:
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/26839241/dir/rawhide/com/dpdk-1.7.0-2.fc22.x86_64.rpm.html
>
>
>>
>> make install T=x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc
>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DPDK kernel requirement.
>> OVS:
>> cd $(OVS_DIR)/openvswitch
>> ./boot.sh
>> -export DPDK_BUILD=/usr/src/dpdk-1.6.0r2/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc
>> +export DPDK_BUILD=/usr/src/dpdk-1.7.0/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc
>> ./configure --with-dpdk=$DPDK_BUILD
>
> Since the libraries and includes are in the standard directories,
> the above doesn't work as well.
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/26839242/dir/rawhide/com/dpdk-devel-1.7.0-2.fc22.x86_64.rpm.html
>
Supporting build against the dpdk rpm is not hard, but I do not think
anyone is working on it yet.
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