[ovs-discuss] ovs test fail on big endian platforms.

Gerhard Stenzel gstenzel at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 24 10:24:31 UTC 2016


On 05/02/2016 10:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> What if we just make ofp_port_t 32 bits?  That has to be the long-term
> trend anyway because OpenFlow 1.1+ uses a 32-bit port number.  The
> following passes all the unit tests on i386 (though I haven't carefully
> looked at all the uses of ofp_port_t), what about big-endian systems?
>
> diff --git a/include/openvswitch/flow.h b/include/openvswitch/flow.h
...

Hi Ben, which patch do you plan to take? For master, your patch might be 
better, but for 2.5 Dirk's proposal seems less invasive.

Thanks, Gerhard




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