[ovs-discuss] compiling questions

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Feixiong Zhang wrote:
> 2. I'm running a 64 bit kernel, but I want to compile openvswitch into 32
> bit binary. The reason again is for my other code and performance
> consideration. guess I should keep the datapath the same as 64 bit as I
> shouldn't load a 32 bit kernel module to 64 bit kernel, while compile the
> user-level apps to 32 bit. anyone has some suggestion on how to do this?

This is just a matter of installing a 32-bit distro with a 64-bit
kernel.  It is trivial; it's what I do on my machines.