Rare project developers

[Frédéric LOUI <>]

> btw do we have any technical contact to the box vendors to have the bsp and 
> the dpdk pmd?
Based on our past discussion with Vendor/Reseller, we should have technical 
contact with AsterFusion(vendor) via STORDIS (reseller).


> Le 24 janv. 2023 à 12:13, mc36 <> a écrit :
> 
> hi,
> 
> On 1/24/23 11:46, Fr  d  ric LOUI wrote:
>> As far as I have been told, same fate for the ASIC+DPU nodes :)
>>> alex: if these dpus are similar to what we've seen at the nvidia lab,
>>> then we'll be in a need your dpdk nix builds but on arm64 platform... :)
>> Yes, basically all ingredients are there to specify new use case.
>> RARE/freeRtr Dpdk  dataplane will be nicely integrated to this box thanks 
>> to Nix.
> 
> well, so as alex expressed his desire to create a dpdk nix build,
> (and i've started giving him hints on how to do so properly)
> and if it's a similar dpu as nvidia's one then we'll need exactly
> this new build on the two small arm boards attached to the asic...
> btw do we have any technical contact to the box vendors to have the bsp and 
> the dpdk pmd?
> 
>> Finger crossed !
> yeahhh.... we'll see soon.... :)
> 
> br,
> cs
> 
>>> Le 24 janv. 2023    11:23, mc36 <> a   crit :
>>> 
>>> niceeee!!!! any news about the asic+dpu boxes?
>>> alex: if these dpus are similar to what we've seen at the nvidia lab,
>>> then we'll be in a need your dpdk nix builds but on arm64 platform... :)
>>> thx,
>>> cs
>>> 
>>> On 1/24/23 11:15, Fr  d  ric LOUI wrote:
>>>> Hi !
>>>> I   ve been notified that we should receive our new TOFINO 2 boxes in 
>>>> Geneva this week.
>>>> So please @Carmen and @ALex stay tuned :-)
>>>> All the best
>>>> Frederic
>>>>> Le 24 janv. 2023    09:16, mc36 <> a   crit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> forgot the list... :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>>> Subject: rare on tofinio2
>>>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:15:45 +0100
>>>>> From: mc36 <>
>>>>> To: Alexander Gall <>
>>>>> 
>>>>> hi,
>>>>> vlad finally dissected the root cause of the tofino2 not forwarding 
>>>>> packets issue and provided us a workaround:
>>>>> https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Connectivity-Research/Port-P4-program-from-TOFINO-1-to-TOFINO-2/m-p/1449228#M4888
>>>>> i've just implemented it 
>>>>> (https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/commit/9ec9e9ddad436aa7571ab5ecc592c272dff1b2bd)
>>>>> and found that it works great in the model but i dont have access to a 
>>>>> real box...
>>>>> so im writing to you if you can give this a quick try to see on a real 
>>>>> hardware?
>>>>> if everything is fine then i'll commit this to the bitbucket too at 
>>>>> least during the weekend bump...
>>>>> (if it's easier for you, the 
>>>>> https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rare/browse/update-src.sh
>>>>>  will fetch it for you...)
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> cs