netmap

[Carlos Ferreira]

First of all, thank you for the quick answer!

I will try it myself to compile just the netmap module without the drivers
and report the results back to you.

Once again, thank you!


On 12 June 2014 11:41, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> First of all, to Luigi and the dev team, great piece of work that netmap
>> is! This is a piece of software that I was looking for quite some time.
>> Your team effort is appreciated!
>>
>> Now the question.
>> I know that this is a FreeBSD mailing list but I was wondering, since you
>> have a PKGBUILD file for ArchLinux, could someone in your team do the same
>> for OpenWRT? Netmap seems to be a piece of software which would come in
>> handy, to develop applications and protocols for the OpenWRT distro.
>> Since OpenWRT uses uClib, I don't really know if it is possible to compile
>> it.
>> Help is appreciated!
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> ​i expect it will be trivial to compile netmap for openwrt,
> because it is just a piece of kernel code and the userspace
> has little or no dependencies.
> Another story is to write specific netmap extensions for the
> driver in use -- that might require a little bit of work
> though not much, knowing the driver.
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> I am afraid we currently we do not have the time and manpower
> to set up a build environment and give it a try.
>
> cheers
> luigi
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