From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 10:41:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BAADBF1B for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com (mail-wi0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 524302B70 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id cc10so5206214wib.0 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:41:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=sQwWPt3blK/kJ3JbnFWgryJBo0SFVV8EVokHfmwajao=; b=j3y3zet6dZGi7xQlCxoFjy/BOU3Pzy8rRZ7RrtjEewQ0LZgyG2cFO7wK3onjlDhC08 wdz7XjURwuWrJ6Vld+/aWgybbuGZ+mvQkk/Gip4CwgZ/RvwMPBkxcW3CmRYvIAj8OjTK Y13KVBRm5I1Kr/isB6PgH/UD4TA+62bdNmYK0ZR8CU+ohZxElJnl6xWY2axW1YsRtoa7 jFmuV0d4gqgO1c476pUhG9YzFblZNeFebwg3kf9zOY/4g5QrEA9mRq4pFPzDJywWaO/P SU6nVjoaeSikuI9PPMOo2qQ22/uwlV6p8n+I3MZT32q29ELX8sZplr1jrwVEnWaten95 PaIg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.183.131 with SMTP id em3mr5221815wic.56.1402569694421; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: rizzo.unipi@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.246.130 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:41:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:41:34 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kr99IquxTVyq_336VMpmoQK1ab4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: netmap From: Luigi Rizzo To: Carlos Ferreira Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:41:36 -0000 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Carlos Ferreira 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