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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2008-06-02 17:05:42 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2008-06-03 14:02:13 -0700
commit34b307bea6c6695c4037ca2ed2dbd87926a029f1 (patch)
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Use kernel build system for linux-2.4.
Based on changes originally by Bobby Holley <bobbyholley@stanford.edu>.
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@@ -281,6 +281,13 @@ To build for a running instance of Linux 2.4:
% ./configure --with-l24=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
+If you wish to build OpenFlow for an architecture other than the architecture
+used for compilation, you may specify the kernel architecture string using the
+KARCH variable when invoking the configure script. For example, to build
+OpenFlow for MIPS with Linux 2.4:
+
+ % ./configure --with-l24=/path/to/linux-2.4 KARCH=mips
+
If you have hardware that supports accelerated OpenFlow switching, and
you have obtained a hardware table module for your hardware and
extracted it into the OpenFlow reference distribution source tree,