From: Justin Pettit Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 05:51:56 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Open vSwitch: Be more definitive about fixing wdp issues in PORTING X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0acc0c98860a75e17a2bcf4538f295dbe14cc1f1;p=openvswitch Open vSwitch: Be more definitive about fixing wdp issues in PORTING --- diff --git a/PORTING b/PORTING index 1321b66e..516da890 100644 --- a/PORTING +++ b/PORTING @@ -78,10 +78,12 @@ represent reasonable porting targets for different purposes: - The "wdp" branch has a software architecture that can take advantage of hardware with support for wildcards (e.g. TCAMs or - similar). This branch has known important bugs. + similar). This branch has known important bugs, but is the basis + of a few ongoing hardware projects, so we expect the quality to + improve rapidly. -Since its architecture is better, in the medium to long term we hope -to fix the problems in the "wdp" branch and merge it into "master". +Since its architecture is better, in the medium to long term we will +fix the problems in the "wdp" branch and merge it into "master". In porting OVS, the major difference between the two branches is the form of the flow table in the datapath: