There is some curiosity in this at Netgate (my employer), but I have it as a free-time project, and there has not been a lot of this.
The good news is that FreeBSD is a supported DPDK target, and I have seen compatibility patches being accepted. So that's a promising start. I have gotten parts of VPP to compile by hand on FreeBSD, so I think that's a good sign, but the overall build system is, uh, i'll call it cisco-ish and leave it at that. I think what we'll need to do is just slog our way through the Makefiles and CMakeLists.txt one-by-one and then start debugging the result. I'm not sure how willing the upstream is to support FreeBSD is either, so, as George said, a port will be tedious to create, but also onerous to maintain. Not saying we shouldn't, but hoping some masochists come forward to help :-) dave c On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:42 AM George Neville-Neil <g...@neville-neil.com> wrote: > > So, a straight up port is possible but tedious (duh) due to its > Linuxism. I think someone else may have taken this up after I stopped > working on it, so let's see if anyone else replies. > > Best, > George > > On 26 Sep 2018, at 11:04, Jordan Caraballo wrote: > > > Hi George, > > > > I am mainly interested in using it in combination with DPDK over > > FreeBSD > > for routing purposes. > > > > If you have suggestions over possibly hacking it to make it available > > for > > FreeBSD, or to continue your work, I am more than willing to get > > advice. > > This might be a worth to-do thing in the future term, so I would not > > mind > > spending some time over it. > > > > Regards, > > - Jordan > > > > El mié., 26 sept. 2018 a las 10:58, George Neville-Neil (< > > g...@neville-neil.com>) escribió: > > > >> Indeed I have not had > >> > >> On 26 Sep 2018, at 8:37, Jordan Caraballo wrote: > >> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> > >>> I am wondering about the status of patching VPP for FreeBSD. I saw > >>> that > >>> George Neville-Neil started some work: > >>> https://github.com/gvnn3/vpp-old/tree/freebsd, but it is outdated > >>> (last > >>> commit was 2 years ago). > >>> > >> > >> Indeed I've not had the time to work on this. > >> > >>> Is this a near future plan? Do you have ongoing projects working > >>> with > >>> this? > >>> > >> > >> Are you interested in hacking on it or on using it? I'd be happy to > >> review patches and the like if you're hacking on it. > >> > >> Best, > >> George > >> > > > > > > -- > > Jordan > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Kailua, Hawaiʻi US +1 (808) 728-3050 UK +44 (020) 3286 2808 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
