[Click] FreeBSD CURRENT - Click Compilation --with-netmap fails

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Eddie Kohler <ekohler at gmail.com> wrote:
> No. --with-netmap only affects the user-level build's options; the bsdmodule
> build is conceptually independent, and you can have build user-level and
> bsdmodule simultaneously.
>
> E
>

So --with-netmap is exclusive to userland and not functional as a kernel module
is it that netmap is nt functiona in a kernel module? or not
integrated well enough
into click......

>
>
> On 5/25/12 11:53 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, there are people on the list working on better
>>> bsdmodule integration, and netmap doesn't work with every driver, and
>>> there are occasional reasons to prefer the kernel anyway; I don't see it
>>> as cut-and-dried as Luigi does.
>>
>>
>> good point, thanks for the clarification.
>> still --enable-bsdmodule and --with-netmap should be
>> mutually exclusive, right ?
>>
>> cheers
>> luigi
>>
>>> Best,
>>> Eddie
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/25/12 11:13 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:39:14AM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Outback Dingo<outbackdingo at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Luigi Rizzo<rizzo at iet.unipi.it>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:30:37PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> building click from git, on FreeBSD CURRENT
>>>>>>>> ./configure --with-netmap
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> for the time being just rename the fields from *_queues to *_rings.
>>>>>>> I was planning to send a suitable patch but have not had the time
>>>>>>> yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, thats worked, successfully compiled with CLANG on CURRENT
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and figure that ./configure
>>>>> --enable-bsdmodule --with-netmap
>>>>>
>>>>> will result in a massive fail...... correct .. ??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i think that bsdmodule refers to the in-kernel version,
>>>> which is unsupported at best and should not be necessary
>>>> anyways since you go much faster with netmap (either
>>>> direct or on top of libpcap)
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> luigi
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