Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:41:34 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: netmap Message-ID: <CA%2BhQ2%2BhHz2FKUkCRnHiGAVxZqxY5WHPPo87mVgSnSmPzovNLWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJpYY6Wj6NkYVdPzitswLQ2oVoX9JAv5tCnzbP6icsgJTdfm8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJpYY6Wj6NkYVdPzitswLQ2oVoX9JAv5tCnzbP6icsgJTdfm8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf.pt@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > 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 sam= e > 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 compil= e > it. > Help is appreciated! > > =E2=80=8Bi 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. 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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