Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:59:30PM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > > > I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for porting it to our > > devices. > > > Reading the porting doc

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-07 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:59:30PM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > > I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for porting it to our > devices. > > Reading the porting document has risen some question for me. > > Q: Say I want to port OVS to a ne

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:31:30AM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > > > I read the document couple of times but I found it quit vague maybe > > because of lack of knowledge. > > My confusion is that whether all those components ( > > ​​ > > of

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > I read the document couple of times but I found it quit vague maybe > because of lack of knowledge. > My confusion is that whether all those components ( > ​​ > ofproto-dpif, dpif, dpif provider) are needed all together if I want to > port

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
I read the document couple of times but I found it quit vague maybe because of lack of knowledge. My confusion is that whether all those components (ofproto-dpif, dpif, dpif provider) are needed all together if I want to port OVS to a new hardware or not. That is because when I looked at the blockd

Re: [ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:59:30PM +0100, Mehdi Rashidi wrote: > I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for porting it to our devices. > Reading the porting document has risen some question for me. > Q: Say I want to port OVS to a new hardware like EZchip NP-3 platform. > According to the docu

[ovs-discuss] Some questions about OVS porting

2013-05-02 Thread Mehdi Rashidi
Hello everybody, I am totally new to the OVS and OpenFlow and trying to understand them deeply as I am working on a project which aims to make non-compliant OpenFlow devices compatible with OpenFlow. i.e. to be controlled by OpenFlow controller. I am trying to analyze the OVS as an option for por