Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

nicee! can we access somehow the box?
can you give a try to freertr.org/rtr-aarch64.tar p4dpdk.bin or p4emu.bin if 
they can run out of the box?
thanks,
cs


On 2/9/23 15:54, Fr  d  ric LOUI wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> We are progressing WRT TOFINO2 and TOFINO+DPU(s) hardware installation.
>
> I just wanted to share with you at a first overview/impression of the hybrid 
> platform: X312P-48Y-T+DPU(s)
> (Based on AsterFusion documentation)
>
> - X312P-48Y-T has 12 x QSFP28 port, 48 x SFP28 ports
> - TOFINO T32D (with 2 pipes) is used
> - Marvell Octeon DPU is an ARM/CPU board somehow similar to Nvidia Bluefield 
> 2 DPU and dpdk driver is rte_pmd_octeontx2
> - These DPU(s) are wired internally and have a TOFINO DEV_PORT ID
> - DPU(s) can be SSH   ed once you are logged into Main Board CPU OS. (i.e 
> Debian)
> - All of our work related to RARE ONIE image is applicable and ONIE id are:
>     onie_machine: asterfusion_x312p
>     onie_platform: x86_64-asterfusion_x312p-r0
>
> Therefore RARE/freeRtr integration needs some adjustment developments. It is 
> similar to 3 installations.
> 1 installation for Main Board CPU(arch=x86), 1 for DPU_1(arch=arm) and 
> another fir DPU_2 (arch=arm).
>
> All in all this sounds promising as Marvell Octeon is said to be as much as 
> powerful as FPGA Stratix 10 (which has been recently declared EoL by INTEL 
> recently :-( )
>
> All the best
> Frederic