Follow-Up: We're all set, thanks John Miller; and my apologies for incorrectly posting this to "dev" as opposed to "users" mailing list. -Shep
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Shepard Siegel < shepard.sie...@atomicrules.com> wrote: > A client of ours shipped us an IBM x3650 with CentOS 6.8 installed. Our > software team is off for the holidays. We use DPDK 16.07 and have had no > issues with supported OSs. We understand that CentOS 6.8 is not supported > for DPDK v16.07. Still, since IBM doesn't support CentOS 7 on the x3650, I > figured I'd give it a try before risking a server OS change. > > We do this little dance to setup DPDK on our systems... > > git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk > cd dpdk > git branch develop > git checkout develop > git reset --hard v16.07 > make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc > sed -ri 's,(PMD_PCAP=).*,\1y,' build/.config > sed -ri 's/CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=n/CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y/' > build/.config > sudo yum install libpcap-devel > make > > Then the make fails some ways in as below... > > [labuser@bw-x3650 dpdk]$ git rev-parse HEAD > 20e2b6eba13d9eb61b23ea75f09f2aa966fa6325 > > [labuser@bw-x3650 dpdk]$ uname -r > 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 > > [labuser@bw-x3650 dpdk]$ cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 6.8 (Final) > > [labuser@bw-x3650 dpdk]$ make > == Build lib > == Build lib/librte_compat > == Build lib/librte_eal > == Build lib/librte_eal/common > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal > LD librte_eal.so.2.1 > INSTALL-LIB librte_eal.so.2.1 > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio > (cat /dev/null; echo kernel//home/labuser/projects/ > dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.ko;) > > /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/ > linuxapp/igb_uio/modules.order > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST 1 modules > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni > CC [M] /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/ > linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.o > In file included from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/ > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_osdep.h:41, > from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/ > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h:31, > from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/ > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb.h:32, > from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/ > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe.h:52, > from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/ > build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.c:56: > /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/kcompat.h: > In function ‘__kc_vlan_get_protocol’: > /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/kcompat.h:2836: > error: implicit declaration of function ‘vlan_tx_tag_present’ > make[8]: *** > [/home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.o] > Error 1 > make[7]: *** > [_module_/home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni] > Error 2 > make[6]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 > make[5]: *** [rte_kni.ko] Error 2 > make[4]: *** [kni] Error 2 > make[3]: *** [linuxapp] Error 2 > make[2]: *** [librte_eal] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [lib] Error 2 > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > Google suggested some hacks; but I'm out of my element in driver source. > Is this a lost cause and I should try to get the server up to CentOS 7? Or > is there a relatively simple (if untested) patch that we could try? Our > objective here is to get through the DPDK and our net/ark PMD build process > and see if we can run some of our most-basic packet ingress/egress ops on > our Arkville IP in this system. > > Thanks in advance for any constructive feedback. Happy Holidays All. -Shep > > Shepard Siegel, CTO > atomicrules.com > > > > > >
