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> - Building the Linux kernel module from the OVS source tree is
> deprecated
> * Support for the Linux kernel is capped at version 5.8
> * Only bug fixes for the Linux OOT kernel module will be accepted.
> * The Linux kernel module will be fully removed from the OVS source
> tree
> in OVS branch 2.18
Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
This is to make explicit the conditional select of libunwind is only
needed for libopenvswitch. If we spill it over other packages, the
generated kconfig will have recursive dependency issue. 2 new patches
were made for this goal
The other thing is that "+libunwind" will cause it to be built if any of the
packages defined in this Makefile is enabled (y or m). This is at the moment
by-design of the build system.
Libunwind does not support architectures like arc. Use conditional select To
avoid (libunwind) build failures like the following,
checking for ELF helper width... configure: error: Unknown ELF target: arc
make[3]: *** [Makefile:65: /data/openwrt/build_dir/target-arc_arc700_uClibc/
libunwind-1.3.1/.configured_68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940] Error 1
Things like "+PACKAGE_openvswitch-libopenvswitch:libunwind" will also result in
recursive deps error for chains of 3 nodes. Kconfig construct like the
following will be made
config A
tristate
select B
depends on !(C) || (x)
config B
tristate
select C
config C
tristate
config x
bool
Other changes include
- Shared use of variable ovs__common_depends was removed
- Ovn doc build was patched out
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/12959#issuecomment-665021413
Reported-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
This is to address the need that openvswitch starting with 2.13 now
depends on libunwind for handling SIGSEGV (upstream commit e2ed6fbeb18
("fatal-signal: Catch SIGSEGV and print backtrace"))
Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
python2 library is now removed as the transition has been done by the
upstream project
OVN is now a separate project released with its own release plan and
it's not included within openvswitch starting with ovs 2.13.
openvswitch.mk is split out from the main Makefile for adding ovn
packages back in following commits.
The following two patches are already included in 2.13
- ovsdb-idlc-fix-dict-change-during-iteration.patch
- compat-Include-confirm_neigh-parameter-if-needed.patch
Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
Yousong Zhou