[yocto] Yocto for NFS/SDN networking product

[Kosta Zertsekel]

Khem,


Fully agree that Yocto has is good, 'cause it supports cross-build, has a wide

industry support and actually it has **the version** (meaning, all the packages

are taken with specific git commit id unlike debian/ubuntu binaries).


But then, I'm confused in the other respect...


I'm looking at the OpenSwitch build system (part of Open Compute project

under Linux Foundation) and I see that is uses yocto as a subsystem. It's really

confusing because yocto is supposed to have "meta-XYZ" for OpenSwitch

support.


So, when choosing a build system for OpenSwitch-based products - do one

still has to use yocto or just go with the build system provided by OpenSwitch?


Thanks,

--- KostaZ

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From: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 5:56 PM
To: Kosta Zertsekel
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Ran Wainstein
Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto for NFS/SDN networking product

Kosta

Yocto project is developed by many volunteers and people sponsored by corporations,
all development happens in opensource. The community supports the project. There
are also lot of commercial OS vendors which use Yocto project to build their products,
so you can always go to them if you are looking for commercial support.

For advantages, it can build a small footprint since it builds bottom up. So you can really get only needed
packages for your custom image. It will create a source based distribution for you where you have control
over every part of the OSS stack. You can really tailor your solution to your needs.

It builds in cross-build environment, supports many CPU architectures and machines

The community is very welcoming and helpful. You can easily contribute to the project
and fulfill your needs by doing so. The learning curve might be a bit steeper. But then
you do have trainings available offerred by professionals.

Thanks
-Khem
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Kosta Zertsekel <kzertsekel at mrv.com<mailto:kzertsekel at mrv.com>> wrote:

Hi dear Yocto community,


I'm trying to evaluate Yocto as the candidate to create Linux distro

for NFS/SDN networking product. Through Google I get an impression

that there is a race between Yocto, CentOS (RedHat) and 6WIND

Linux distributions to get most of NFV/SDN Linux distro market.


Can you please help to find cons and pros of using Yocto for

NFV/SDN networking product?


I google over NFV/SDN part of www.etsi.org<http://www.etsi.org> but couldn't make up

my mind what specific distro got the traction.


I see that Yocto has NFV/SDN layers (reference<http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/YP_and_OpenStack_LinuxCon2014.pdf>):

```
git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-cloud-services<http://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-cloud-services>
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded<http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded>
git clone --branch icehouse git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-virtualization<http://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-virtualization>
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core<http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core> oe-core
```


Are these layers officially supported by Intel?

Does Intel provide the NFV/SDN support?


Thanks,

--- KostaZ

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