@Ronaldo: there was a patch submission to add OVS support to netifd. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/21591
I was not accepted from the looks of it. Regarding the discussion about the upgrade to 2.5.0. Let's move it here: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/2201 On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Ronaldo Afonso < rona...@ronaldoafonso.com.br> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to take advantage of that thread and ask you guys if there is > someone working on porting "netifd package" to support Open vSwitch. > > Jeroen, > > How are you planning to configure your /etc/config/network file in order > for it to work with Open vSwitch? > > Thanks in advance ... > > > 2015-12-29 0:34 GMT-02:00 Yousong Zhou <yszhou4t...@gmail.com>: > >> On 29 December 2015 at 04:33, Jeroen van Bemmel <jvb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > For a Xiaomi Mini WiFi router I wanted to try OpenVSwitch, but the >> > 2.4.0 version available in the feeds only supports Linux kernels up to >> > 4.1. The ramips target uses kernel 4.3, and downgrading to 4.1 didn't >> work >> > for me. >> > >> > OpenVSwitch 2.5.0 does support kernel 4.3, so I made some >> > modifications to the package Makefile to build the newer version. Most >> > of the patches are no longer needed, and with some minor patch the >> > code builds now >> > ( though I haven't tested it on the target ) >> > >> > Is anyone else interested in these changes, and if so what would be >> > the proper way to add a second version of the existing package ( with >> > its own source code URL + patches )? Would it be a delta on the >> > existing package, or a new "openvswitch-2.5.0" package? >> > >> >> I think we can just move to 2.5.0. Use the newest version or the LTS >> version (2.3.2). >> >> Open vSwitch is provided through the packages feed, so opening >> issue/pr there should be better. >> >> yousong >> >> > Thanks, >> > Jeroen van Bemmel >> > _______________________________________________ >> > openwrt-devel mailing list >> > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> > > > > -- > Ronaldo Afonso > 11 9 5252 0484 > www.ronaldoafonso.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > >
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