DPDK

This is the Stateless fork of DPDK. Instead of maintaining a normal git fork we use stgit to maintain a patchset. This simplifies things by keeping the upstream history entirely outside of our repo and the set of stateless-specific patches is very clear. This should make it easy to incorporate our changes upstream while pulling in new changes from upstream regularly.

Obtaining the Patched Code

First, install stgit through your package manager, e.g. apt-get install stgit or zypper in stgit. Alternatively, you can clone the stgit repo and install it manually if you want to run the latest and greatest version.

Next, run the following commands.

git clone git@github.com:BeStateless/dpdk.git
cd dpdk
./patch

Now the patched code is in the dpdk directory in the repository root with stgit set up on the tip of the patch set.

Making New Changes

To make a new patch simply use stg new patch-name.patch, edit the files you want to include in the patch, use stg refresh to incorporate those changes into the patch, and finally use stg export -d ../patches from the inner dpdk directory to export the new patch. Modifying an existing patch, reordering patches, rebasing onto newer upstream changes, and other operations are explained in the stgit tutorial.