| .. _gstarteddevel: |
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| For Developers |
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| The Developers section covers the following areas: |
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| * 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 |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
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| building |
| running_vpp |
| gdb_examples |
| add_plugin |
| add_plugin_goapi |
| 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 |
| cross_compile_macos.rst |
| cnat |
| VPPAPI.md |