Add dpdk to wily universe

[Stefan Bader]

DPDK is a library/SDK to create user-space low-level networking (SDN) applications. It is not yet packaged up but we want to add support for it in Wily onwards.

Source: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/dpdk/log/?h=ubuntu-wily
PPA: https://launchpad.net/~smb/+archive/ubuntu/dpdk

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

There's no FFe required for NEW packages, assuming they aren't going to be altering existing setups (ie: not installed by default, no existing packages will suddenly link to the new libraries, etc).

[James Page (james-page)]

Adam

The plan is that openvswitch will make use of this library; so an existing package in main will want to start linking against dpdk.

There is a MIR under bug 1492186 to cover its move to main once we get it uploaded.

[James Page (james-page)]

That said, the default ovs binary will not make use of dpdk; we're planning to provide a dpdk enabled version via alternatives for this cycle due to the compile time nature of the CPU optimizations required for dpdk.

[James Page (james-page)]

As this won't make main inclusion this cycle, I'd also like to introduce a openvswitch-switch-dpdk source/binary package to universe to allow some access to dpdk via openvswitch.

This would avoid the need to MIR dpdk for this cycle, and would be potentially super-ceeded as/when that happens.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Uploaded and in the New queue:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+queue?queue_state=0&queue_text=dpdk