Clang 3.4 and later should now be widespread, so it's not worth suggesting where to find it.
OVS needs a variety of shared libraries at runtime and it's not worth mentioning each one by name. The Linux kernel datapath module is available from a variety of places, so don't say you have to use the one you built. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> --- Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst index b2c3c20de419..9e77bcf7ea68 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst @@ -43,9 +43,7 @@ need the following software: - GCC 4.6 or later. - - Clang. Clang 3.4 and later provide useful static semantic analysis and - thread-safety checks. For Ubuntu, there are nightly built packages - available on clang's website. + - Clang 3.4 or later. - MSVC 2013. Refer to :doc:`windows` for additional Windows build instructions. @@ -164,12 +162,14 @@ Installation Requirements The machine you build Open vSwitch on may not be the one you run it on. To simply install and run Open vSwitch you require the following software: -- libc compatible with the libc used for build. +- Shared libraries compatible with those used for the build. -- libssl compatible with the libssl used for build, if OpenSSL was used - for the build. - -- On Linux, the same kernel version configured as part of the build. +- On Linux, if you want to use the kernel-based datapath (which is the most + common use case), then a kernel with a compatible kernel module. This + can be a kernel module built with Open vSwitch (e.g. in the previous + step), or the kernel module that accompanies Linux 3.3 and later. Open + vSwitch features and performance can vary based on the module and the + kernel. Refer to :doc:`/internals/releases` for more information. - For optional support of ingress policing on Linux, the "tc" program from iproute2 (part of all major distributions and available at -- 2.10.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev