X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=PORTING;h=5f88c940a8b3b27a5ed6421bfaff8a538fbb3928;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Forig-parallel;hp=516da8905a2204e96246c38224d03f99571640e6;hpb=0acc0c98860a75e17a2bcf4538f295dbe14cc1f1;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/PORTING b/PORTING index 516da8905..5f88c940a 100644 --- a/PORTING +++ b/PORTING @@ -127,10 +127,10 @@ There are two existing dpif implementations that may serve as useful examples during a port: * lib/dpif-linux.c is a Linux-specific dpif implementation that - talks to a Open vSwitch-specific kernel module (whose sources + talks to an Open vSwitch-specific kernel module (whose sources are in the "datapath" directory). The kernel module performs all of the switching work, passing packets that do not match any - flow table entry down to userspace. This dpif implementation is + flow table entry up to userspace. This dpif implementation is essentially a wrapper around calls to "ioctl". * lib/dpif-netdev.c is a generic dpif implementation that performs @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ during a port: vSwitch datapath module for the Linux kernel. They may serve as a model for minimal netdev implementations. +Miscellaneous Notes +------------------- + +lib/entropy.c assumes that it can obtain high-quality random number +seeds at startup by reading from /dev/urandom. You will need to +modify it if this is not true on your platform. + Questions ---------