Update top-level documentation to bring it up to date with latest features.

diff --git a/INSTALL.KVM b/INSTALL.KVM
index 6e61f50844852f9b69b588977093663acd24f071..09a8d67fb384bc136dd17c67237fc899ffa78ed7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.KVM
+++ b/INSTALL.KVM
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 This document describes how to use Open vSwitch with the Kernel-based
 Virtual Machine (KVM). This document assumes that you have read and
-followed INSTALL.Linux to get Open vSwitch setup on your Linux system
+followed INSTALL.Linux to get Open vSwitch setup on your Linux system.
 
 Setup
 -----

diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
index 0d56da65d7c0a99fe6dc7918a46f9a7ea01c8d08..0872922dc2a9ef912233898a11bf89e6307a408a 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.Linux
+++ b/INSTALL.Linux
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information.
       be compiled with IPv6 support (CONFIG_IPV6).  This allows for
       special handling (such as path MTU discovery) of IPv6 packets.
 
+      To configure HTB or HFSC quality of service with Open vSwitch,
+      you must enable the respective configuration options.
+
       To use Open vSwitch support for TAP devices, you must enable
       CONFIG_TUN.
 
@@ -67,8 +70,8 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information.
       infrastructure.
 
 If you are working from a Git tree or snapshot (instead of from a
-distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system,
-you will also need the following software:
+distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system
+or the database schema, you will also need the following software:
 
     - Autoconf version 2.64 or later.
 
@@ -81,12 +84,22 @@ following:
 
     - pyuic4 from PyQt4 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk).
 
+To run the unit tests, you also need:
+
+    - Perl.  Version 5.10.1 is known to work.  Earlier versions should
+      also work.
+
 If you modify the vswitchd database schema, then the E-R diagram in
 the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) manpage will be updated properly only if
 you have the following:
 
     - "dot" from graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/).
 
+    - Perl.  Version 5.10.1 is known to work.  Earlier versions should
+      also work.
+
+    - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+
 Installation Requirements
 -------------------------
 

diff --git a/INSTALL.OpenFlow b/INSTALL.OpenFlow
index 10220f1f912ca1c1603ff9d8a1cd704a283e7805..173a68833a06e9d99ab5f73a627865b922568e35 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.OpenFlow
+++ b/INSTALL.OpenFlow
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ OpenFlow switch.
 
       % insmod datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko
 
-   This kernel module cannot be loaded if the Linux bridge module is
-   already loaded.  Thus, you may need to remove any existing bridges
-   and unload the bridge module with "rmmod bridge" before you can do
-   this.
+   If your Linux kernel is earlier than 2.6.36, this kernel module
+   cannot be loaded if the Linux bridge module is already loaded.
+   Thus, you may need to remove any existing bridges and unload the
+   bridge module with "rmmod bridge" before you can do this.
 
 3. Create a datapath instance.  The command below creates a datapath
    identified as dp0 (see ovs-dpctl(8) for more detailed usage

diff --git a/README b/README
index 114878db8e6646a8209daa5dd074f35a63bf1d71..8972aec09a2570d78a7a93ad942a67a4e4e3137c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ What is Open vSwitch?
 Open vSwitch is a multilayer software switch licensed under the open
 source Apache 2 license.  Our goal is to implement a production
 quality switch platform that supports standard management interfaces
-(e.g. NetFlow, sFlow(R), RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and opens the
-forwarding functions to programmatic extension and control.
+and opens the forwarding functions to programmatic extension and
+control.
 
 Open vSwitch is well suited to function as a virtual switch in VM
 environments.  In addition to exposing standard control and visibility
@@ -20,19 +20,20 @@ The bulk of the code is written in platform-independent C and is
 easily ported to other environments.  The current release of Open
 vSwitch supports the following features:
 
-    * Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN,
-      and RSPAN
-    * Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking
-    * Per VM policing
-    * NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing
-    * Kernel-based forwarding
-    * Support for OpenFlow
-    * Compatibility layer for the Linux bridging code
+    * Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunk and access ports
+    * NIC bonding with or without LACP on upstream switch
+    * NetFlow, sFlow(R), SPAN, RSPAN, and ERSPAN for increased visibility
+    * QoS (Quality of Service) configuration, plus policing
+    * GRE, GRE over IPSEC, and CAPWAP tunneling
+    * 802.1ag connectivity fault management
+    * OpenFlow 1.0 plus numerous extensions
+    * Transactional configuration database with C and Python bindings
+    * Compatibility layer for Linux bridging code
+    * High-performance forwarding using a Linux kernel module
 
 The included Linux kernel module supports Linux 2.6.18 and up, with
-testing focused on 2.6.18 with Centos and Xen patches and version
-2.6.26 from kernel.org.  Open vSwitch also has special support for
-Citrix XenServer hosts.
+testing focused on 2.6.32 with Centos and Xen patches.  Open vSwitch
+also has special support for Citrix XenServer hosts.
 
 Open vSwitch can also operate, at a cost in performance, entirely in
 userspace, without assistance from a kernel module.  This userspace