LDWG meeting minutes, June 3, 2019

Attendees

• Gordon Brebner (Xilinx)
• Mihai Budiu (VMware)
• Calin Cascaval (Barefoot)
• Chris Dodd (Barefoot)
• Andy Fingerhut (Cisco)
• Nate Foster (Cornell)
• Jed Liu (Barefoot)
• Chris Sommers (Keysight)
• Mario Baldi (Cisco)

Overview

• Our target is to have a 1.2 release ready by the end of the summer.

• Major item is likely to be the module system.

• Other smaller items can be included if people take the lead on design and implementation work.

P4_16 Module System

• Notes: https://github.com/p4lang/p4-spec/wiki/Modules-Notes

Structure Initializers

• Issue: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/pull/1951
• PR: https://github.com/p4lang/p4-spec/pull/717

V1Model Recirculate

• Issue: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/issues/1669
• PR: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/pull/1698

Signed Integer Slices

• Issue: https://github.com/p4lang/p4-spec/issues/668
• PR: https://github.com/p4lang/p4-spec/pull/701

Assert and Assume

• Issue: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/issues/1548
• PR: https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/pull/1859

Next Time

• Above issues, redux.
• Structure overlays.
• Abstract methods.
• Conditional actions.
• Next meeting will be on July 1st