Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, [email protected] wrote: >Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]> wrote: >> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software >> switch doing L2 forwarding. >> >> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working. >> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload, >> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing. > >How is this different from net/bridge? >How is this different from openvswitch?
The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such.
