OpenvSwitch in BPI-R2 kernel 4.14.48-bpi-r2-main

Banana Pi BPI-R4/BPI-R3 Mini/BPI-R3/BPI-R64/BPI-R2
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I am trying to install openvswitch in the BPI-R2(image ubuntu-18.04-bpi-r2-preview with kernel 4.14.48-bpi-r2-main) but I get some errors. When I execute ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/4.14.48-bpi-r2-main/build, shows an error that says build does not exist. I execute ln -s /root/openvswitch-2.10.1/datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko /lib/modules/4.14.48-bpi-r2-main and then depmod -a and it returns too many levels of symbolic links.

Does anyone know why this happens?

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I guess you need kernelsources for your current kernel

To get it you can checkout 1e4a88f6cab247b73acf427493567bbbafcd3ad3 (merge of 4.14.48) or 4bfb0a99da80be0a1ee711e435c6577893fae20a (merge of hdmi) from my github-repo

https:// github.com/frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14/commits/4.14-main?after=062360465516e587a7b438dc2c003c7f1988f003+104&author=frank-w

Please post link to configure-script, so we can look what this does when printing this error

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root@bpi-r2:/boot/bananapi/bpi-r2/linux# ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)                                                                                            
insgesamt 184                                                                                                                                                      
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    36 Okt 24 11:39 build -> /media/data_ext/bpi-r2-kernel/github                                                                           
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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    36 Okt 24 11:39 source -> /media/data_ext/bpi-r2-kernel/github

these 2 links defaulting to my directory where i have built the kernel. download source for your kernelversion, unpack it (maybe to /usr/src/kernel_4.14.48) and change symlink of build and source to this directory…maybe you have to rebuild kernel

HTH Frank

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frank-w

I had the same issue and I did the above operation. However, OvS is not supported for the Bnana Pi kernel and OvS cannot be started.

please tell me. Do you have a track record of OvS operation on BPI-R2? Also, do you know how to change the kernel of BPI-R2 to something other than Banana Pi?

Please.

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In 5.4 you can install the deb package…it should not have the wrong links

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thank you for your answer. Do you have an OS image that includes kernel 5.4? Is there no choice but to get the kernel code from git?

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no, the images contain older kernels, but you can install kernels from github releases in it (maybe need to change uenv.txt after install)

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Thank you very much. Understood. By the way, if I have 5.4 kernel, can I see if Openvswitch works? Do you have a track record?

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i have not tested it as i don’t use it :wink: just try to add needed config options…but you will have more luck using last LTS kernel instead of 4.14/4.19 or older