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

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri May 27 00:18:16 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:24:31PM +0200, Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> 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.

I posted a series of fixes:
        http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-May/071791.html



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