Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

hi,

On 6/2/22 12:16, Alexander Gall wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 12:07:52 +0200, mc36 <> said:
>
> > hi,
> > taking a closer look on what's going on, i just realized that this pre_emit 
> > stuff is basically just before the very core tocpu check:
> > https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/blob/7a417d4537db9cbae8fdcb9f618ef008f62f3913/misc/p4bf/include/ig_ctl.p4#L187
> > so for now, i strongly believe that we can get rid of all the ternary matches 
> > here if we split the table... the cpuhdr
> > insertion could go directly to the inner part of the if, and the rest could 
> > go to the else part... for the bridging ternary,
> > i can easily list all the possible values for the sap_en/de_cap so this table 
> > could easily become an all-exact.... let's see.... :)
>
> Ok, great. 
unfortunately not, it broke multicast at all...
well yeahh, so the cpu header is not needed in that case...
but nevermind, i'll find out something.... one of the two
ternary will go away...

> In the meantime I found that 9.7.2 fixes the compiler bug
> in 9.7.1 that shows up with the BNG profile. I'll move RARE to 9.7.2
> and tigether with your changes we should have a complete RARE on
> Tofino2 :)
>
> BTW, I think we now need an additional optimizer run for Tofino2.
indeed....

but before doing so, lemme ask the aps guys if they progressed porting the 
2556 bsp to sde990...
if that's the case, we could completely move to sde990?

br,
cs