Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

It's basically done, at least for a first go. All important features
are there, I think. Just one annoying thing left to fix. The Tofino2
SDE has a bug in the BFRT code that's harmless but generates so many
error messages that I can't release it like that (the bug was reported
on the Forum and Vladimir has assigned JIRA issue DRV-6313 to it). I'm
going to write a patch that eliminates the messages next week. Then
I'll test the ONIE installer and finally I'll make RARE release #2,
hopefully also next week.

Stay tuned :)

-- 
Alex

On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 11:06:15 +0200, Alexander Gall <> said:

> Folks,

> I just performed the first successful ping between RARE running on the
> AS9516_32D and a Cisco 8201 via a 400G port :)

> The last hurdle was to find out which port on the Tofino2 chip
> represents the CPU PCIe port that provides the communication to the
> control plane. Lacking documentation I had to do this by trial and
> error. Luckily, the first try was a success: it's device port #0 (but
> maybe Tofino2 has more than one, I don't know).

> Most of the code is already in the various Git repos, but not all of
> it. I'll try to do this later today or next week.

> -- 
> Alex