Status of Vector Packet Processing (VPP) portability into FreeBSD

[David Cornejo]

There is some curiosity in this at Netgate (my employer), but I have
it as a free-time project, and there has not been a lot of this.

The good news is that FreeBSD is a supported DPDK target, and I have
seen compatibility patches being accepted. So that's a promising
start.

I have gotten parts of VPP to compile by hand on FreeBSD, so I think
that's a good sign, but the overall build system is, uh, i'll call it
cisco-ish and leave it at that. I think what we'll need to do is just
slog our way through the Makefiles and CMakeLists.txt one-by-one and
then start debugging the result.

I'm not sure how willing the upstream is to support FreeBSD is either,
so, as George said, a port will be tedious to create, but also onerous
to maintain. Not saying we shouldn't, but hoping some masochists come
forward to help :-)

dave c

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:42 AM George Neville-Neil
<gnn at neville-neil.com> wrote:
>
> 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 https://github.com/gvnn3/vpp-old/tree/freebsd, but it is outdated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
>
>
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