DPDK for Ubuntu / Debian, let's do it?

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

OffTopic but... WOW!

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1032731

:-D

On 12 July 2015 at 01:39, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, there is a RPM spec file there:
>
> dpdk-1.8.0/pkg/dpdk-core.spec
>
> Might be helpful...
>
> On 12 July 2015 at 00:32, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Awesome!  :-D
>>
>>
>> I really want to start playing with DPDK, specially when we talk about
>> OpenStack and Open vSwitch...
>>
>> Well, to start, I'll share how I'm compiling DPDK-1.8.0 on Ubuntu Trusty
>> with Linux 3.19.
>>
>>
>> Complete procedure:
>>
>>
>> 1- Build dependencies:
>>
>> apt-get install linux-generic-lts-vivid
>>
>> reboot
>>
>> apt-get install make coreutils gcc binutils linux-headers-`uname
>> -r` libc6-dev-i386 libpcap0.8-dev fakeroot
>>
>>
>> 2- Get DPDK and a patch to compile it against Linux 3.19:
>>
>>
>> mkdir dpdk ; cd dpdk
>>
>> wget http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-1.8.0.tar.gz
>>
>> tar xf dpdk-1.8.0.tar.gz
>>
>> curl -s http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/4001/raw/ -o
>> dpdk-dev-kni-fix-compilation-issue-on-kernel-3.19.patch
>>
>> cd dpdk-1.8.0
>>
>> patch -p1 < ../dpdk-dev-kni-fix-compilation-issue-on-kernel-3.19.patch
>>
>>
>> 4- Compiling and installing it to a TMP DESTDIR:
>>
>>
>> make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
>>
>> sed -ri 's,(PMD_PCAP=).*,\1y,' build/.config
>>
>> make
>>
>> mkdir /tmp/dpdk-1.8.0-destdir
>>
>> DESTDIR=/tmp/dpdk-1.8.0-destdir fakeroot make install
>> T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
>>
>> ls -l /tmp/dpdk-1.8.0-destdir
>>
>>
>> Done?!
>>
>>
>> NOTES:
>>
>>
>> * If you're building it under a Trusty KVM Virtual Machine, make sure
>> your VM CPU configuration have all the flags from the host.
>>
>>
>> - I'll need some kind of direction here, to package it according, mostly
>> because of:
>>
>>
>> * What is DPDK? A Library? A Kernel module? User-space drivers, what?
>> Does it have headers (.h files) (yes, it have)?
>>
>>
>> Plus, its DESTDIR looks very different from "regular software" after
>> install... So, how to package it according (to Debian / Ubuntu rules)?
>>
>>
>> * How we'll call its packages? libdpdk1, libdpdk1-bin, libdpdk1-dev,
>> dpdk1-kernel-modules (for igb_uio.ko and rte_kni.ko) ... ?
>>
>>
>> * Do we need to patch DPDK to change the destination paths (to make it
>> Debian/Ubuntu compliance)?
>>
>> * Will it compiles on Ubuntu Launchpad PPA infrastructure? I have a
>> pbuilder env ready but, no package yet.
>>
>> * I would like to use "git-buildpackage" and host our "dpdk-1.8.0/debian"
>> subdir on Github. I like Launchpad but dislike bazaar.
>>
>>
>> BTW, I'm starting with DPDK-1.8.0 because DPDK-2.0.0 have some problems,
>> also, I think that it will be a good start pointing.
>>
>>
>> Also, can we learn something from DPDK Fedora / RedHat RPM package? They
>> already have it.
>>
>> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dpdk - Not sure about
>> its quality, since it is for, you know, RedHat...
>>
>>
>> Hope to hear more from you guys!
>>
>> Best,
>> Thiago
>>
>> On 11 July 2015 at 11:49, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> On 11 July 2015 at 05:06, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hey guys,
>>> >
>>> >  Any plans to package Intel DPDK for Ubuntu?
>>> >
>>> >  Also, what about integrating Open vSwitch with DPDK (after package
>>> ready)?
>>> >
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in doing this in Debian (and thus in Ubuntu). My
>>> networking knowledge is limited however, but this sounds like fun
>>> though.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dimitri.
>>>
>>
>>
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