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diff --git a/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst b/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst index d43e61f3..5c48bbb3 100644 --- a/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst +++ b/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst @@ -59,26 +59,6 @@ reason we debianize that module by hand now, using this procedure: The package ends up in deb_dist dir. -ppp -^^^ - -Properly renaming PPTP and L2TP interfaces to pptpX and l2tpX from generic and -non-informative pppX requires a patch that is neither in the upstream nor in -Debian. - -We keep a fork of Debian's repo at https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian - -The patches for pre-up renaming are: - -* https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/e728180026a051d2a96396276e7e4ae -* https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/f29ba8d9ebb043335a096d70bcd07e9 - -Additionally, there's a patch for reopening the log file to better support -logging to files, even though it's less essential: -https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/dd2ebd5cdcddb40230dc4cc43d374055f - -The patches were written by Stephen Hemminger back in the Vyatta times. - mdns-repeater ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -95,58 +75,6 @@ https://github.com/vyos/udp-broadcast-relay No special build procedure is required. -Linux kernel -^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -In the past a fork of the Kernel source code was kept at the well-known -location of https://github.com/vyos/vyos-kernel - where it is kept for history. - -Nowadays the Kernel we use is the upstream source code which is patched -with two additional patches from the good old Vyatta times which never made it -into the mainstream Kernel. The patches can be found here: -https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build-kernel/tree/master/patches/kernel and are -automatically applied to the Kernel by the Jenkins Pipeline which is used to -generate the Kernel binaries. - -The Pipeline script not only builds the Kernel with the configuration named -``x86_64_vyos_defconfig`` which is located in the vyos-build-kernel repository, -too - but in addition also builds some Intel out-of-tree drivers, WireGuard -(as long it is not upstreamed) and Accel-PPP. - -The ``Jenkinsfile`` tries to be as verbose as possible on each individual build -step. - -Linux Firmware -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -More and more hardware cards require an additional firmware which is not open -source. The Kernel community hosts a special linux-firmware Git repository -with all available binary files which can be loaded by the Kernel. - -The ``vyos-build`` repository fetches a specific commit of the linux-firmware -repository and embeds those binaries into the resulting ISO image. This step is -done in the ``data/live-build-config/hooks/live/40-linux-firmware.chroot`` file. - -If the firmware needs to be updated it is sufficient to just exchange the Git -commit id we reference in our build. - -Intel NIC drivers -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -We do not make use of the building Intel NIC drivers except for e1000e. Main -reason is that the out of tree Intel drivers seem be perform a bit better, -e.q. have proper receive-side-scaling and multi-queue support. - -Drivers are build as part of the Kernel Pipeline - read above. - -Accel-PPP -^^^^^^^^^ - -Accel-PPP used to be an upstream fork for quite some time but now has been -converted to make use of the upstream source code and build system. - -It is build as part of the Kernel Pipeline - read above. - hvinfo ^^^^^^ |