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For Developers
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The Developers section covers the following areas:
* Describes how to build different types of VPP images
* Explains how to run VPP with and without GDB, with some GDB examples
* Describes the steps required to get a patch reviewed and merged
* Describes the VPP software architecture and identifies the associated four VPP layers
* Describes the different components that are associated with each VPP layer
* Explains how to Create, Add, Enable/Disable different ARC features
* Discusses different aspects of Bounded-index Extensible Hashing (bihash), and how it is used in database lookups
* Describes the different types of API support and how to integrate a plugin
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
building
running_vpp
gdb_examples
add_plugin
gitreview
softwarearchitecture
infrastructure
vlib
plugins
vnet
featurearcs
metadata
multiarch/index.rst
bihash
vpp_api_module
binary_api_support
buildsystem/index.rst
eventviewer
fib20/index.rst
buildwireshark
punt
quic_plugin