Status of Vector Packet Processing (VPP) portability into FreeBSD

[George Neville-Neil]

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 (<
> gnn at 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 https://github.com/gvnn3/vpp-old/tree/freebsd, but it is outdated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