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P4_16 reference compiler

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-06-24 · latest 2025-01-16

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  1. …x86 directly at all, and instead includes targets like DPDK which supports ARM in addition to x86. https://github.com/p4lang/p4c
    comment by enragedcacti · 2025-01-16 · in Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source
  2. …there are a number of approaches in this space: p4c-ebpf [0], p4c-xdp [1], and p4c-ubpf [2]. [0] https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/backends/ebpf/README... [1] https://github.com/vmware/p4c-xdp [2]…
  3. …Disclaimer: I work in this space. [0]: https://opennetworking.org/2021-p4-workshop-content/ [1]: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/tree/main/backends/ebpf [2]: https://github.com/vmware/p4c-xdp
  4. …to that end, I'd forgotten about this but the reference p4 compiler has a ebpf backend target, https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/backends/ebpf/README... which makes me feel like it's better control and systems to drive p4, that are…