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diff --git a/src/README b/src/README deleted file mode 100644 index 0492fa1d..00000000 --- a/src/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -### Purpose of this folder - Quickview - -1. contains place holders for upstream source code package. -2. manages the package dependency -3. provides simple one-button build for test developers - -### Motivation Explained - -There are multiple goals for the project vswitch performance characterization. -First, it is a generic test framework that can be used to characterize any vswitch solution. -Second, it is to be as CI tool to validate any change during development. - -For the first goal, it would be nice to get all the relevant upstream source package and -to provide a easy build environment for a given test developer. Obviously we don't want to -rewrite the makefile system from upstream project. However we need to add a wrapper to the -individual packages to manage package dependecy. For example, to test ovs-dpdk vswitch solution, -the build of ovs would depend on the build result of dpdk. -This dependency is never explicitly specified in the individual package. - -For the second goal as a CI tool, it may not be needed to pull the upstream package. -So this whole folder can be ignored. - -### Files and subfolders - -* package-list: contains list of packages and their associated tags -* mk: contains top level makefiles -* dpdk: place holder for dpdk package -* ovs: place holder for ovs package. -* l2fwd: simple l2 forwarding kernel module |