On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:54 AM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi OpenvSwitch Dev's > > As part of the ongoing support for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the Ubuntu kernel > team provide supported backports of the kernels from later versions of > Ubuntu for 12.04. > > 12.04.3 will switch to using the 3.8 kernel (from 13.04) as default > for new installs when released. > > This is creating a bit of a headache for the server team as the > version of OpenvSwitch we have in 12.04 (1.4.x) does not support this > kernel version natively - we already carry a large number of patches > to support the 3.5 kernel (from 12.10) and I don't really want todo > the same for the 3.8 kernel. > > So - my current plan is to provide -dkms and -source packages from > 1.9.x alongside the userspace tools from the 1.4.x series. I've done > some initial testing and this approach sniff's OK but I wanted to get > your opinion on whether this approach is sound.
This is certainly supposed to work, although my guess is that at this point relatively few people are running like this. X-CudaMail-Whitelist-To: dev@openvswitch.org _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
