Meeting Notes, 2021 08 05

DENT Roadmap and Feature Working Group

Date --- 2021 August 05 Zoom meeting --- https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-yvrD4rHtNIpPTosVOj571ECS_lrf8j

Attendees

• Jon Polom (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Andrew Dunn (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Robert Marko (Sartura; kernel devel)
• Luka Perkov (Sartura; principal)
• Jakov Petrina (Sartura; build system)
• Victor Tkachenko (NAG; lead engineer/product manager)
• Kishore Atreya (Marvell PLM)
• Taras Chornyi (PL Vision; switchdev developer)
• Steve Noble (amazon; DENT TSC lead)
• Sandeep Nagaraja (amazon; lead engineer)
• Michael Lane (amazon; principle TPM)
• Trishan de Lanerolle (Linux Foundation;TPM/Community lead for DENT)
• Celement Chang (Delta; BSP developer)
• Mingxi Kao (Alpha Networks)
• Richard Herwig (Whole Foods; bare metal switching)
• Lawrence Liao (Delta)
• Manodipto Ghose (Testing Working Group)
• Mike Ward (Accton)
• Moti Nisim (Marvell)
• Mickey Rachamim
• Robert Perry
• Naresh Kumar
• Krishnamurthy Mayya
• Moni Levy (nvidia)
• Jan Lubbe

Agenda

• New topics
  • Review feature request issue template
  • Submit ticket to LF to have old Jira locked or disabled
    • hold off until TSC discusses disabling Jira entirely next week

New feature template

Overview

Describe the feature and what it should do. This should be at least one sentence and may be several. Preferably, this is not a bullet point list but rather a verbose description of the thing.

Operation

• List how the feature works. Include details such as what packages are required, packet types are manipulated, etc. if such details are known.
• Describe how the user interacts with the feature and if userspace tool development seems necessary.
• Optionally, provide some high level insight on how the feature may be implemented.

Rationale

Succinctly describe why the feature matters. A single sentence should be adequate. For example: "802.1x is an industry standard for device authentication and physical layer authorization available on most managed switch hardware."

Sponsoring organization

Provide the name of the organization(s) that will be developing the feature or a portion of it.

Actions

• Delta to provide PoE controller software specification
• Amazon to supply PoE daemon requirements
• Need to develop specification for 802.1x driver portion
• Create issue with build system evaluation criteria
• Develop vendor agnostic driver feature requirements list
• Marvell will update Prestera Switchdev wiki with current features (Moti)