X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=afefb518196162b4bf3abb3a841ca4ad9a4dfdb8;hp=cc89cc38019ea94ea246404f7c712d4393e52bb8;hb=HEAD;hpb=c6435221412b81a4782d48311c9cd60ac3ed58fc

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index cc89cc380..afefb5181 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ on a specific platform, please see one of these files:
     - INSTALL.RHEL
     - INSTALL.XenServer
     - INSTALL.NetBSD
+    - INSTALL.DPDK
 
 Build Requirements
 ------------------
@@ -176,6 +177,10 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
 
       % ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
 
+   If --with-linux requests building for an unsupported version of
+   Linux, then "configure" will fail with an error message.  Please
+   refer to the FAQ for advice in that case.
+
    If you wish to build the kernel module for an architecture other
    than the architecture of the machine used for the build, you may
    specify the kernel architecture string using the KARCH variable
@@ -283,9 +288,9 @@ Startup
 Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its
 configuration database, ovsdb-server.  Each machine on which Open
 vSwitch is installed should run its own copy of ovsdb-server.
-Configure it to use the database you created during step 7 of
-installation, above, to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to
-any managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
+Configure it to use the database you created during installation (as
+explained above), to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to any
+managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
 configuration in the database:
 
       % ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \