Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:23:51 +0100, mc36 <> said:

> 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... :)

Nix already supports aarch64, so that should not be a problem, at
least not if the dpu is essentially running as an independent
system. I don't quite understand yet how it will interact with the
host CPU and the Tofino, though :)

-- 
Alex


> 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
>>