Request for Open-Sourcing P4Insight GUI

[Orangezzt]

Hello,

First, thank you for the incredible work on the SDE and the ongoing efforts to open-source the simulation model and related tools. It’s greatly appreciated by the community.

I noticed that the P4Insight GUI, which is a valuable tool for visualizing hardware resource usage after P4 program compilation, is not yet open-sourced. As mentioned in the repository documentation, P4.org personnel are in communication with Intel regarding its open-source release.

Could you provide an update on the progress of this effort? The P4Insight GUI would be a significant addition to the open-source ecosystem, enabling developers to better understand and optimize their P4 programs for Tofino ASICs.

If there are any blockers or challenges in making this tool open-source, it would be helpful to understand them. The community is eager to contribute and support this initiative in any way possible.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

[jafingerhut]

I and a few other people from P4.org joined together to write a request for P4Insight and several other things not yet released by Intel, e.g. some Tofino documentation, and sent it to a prominent Intel manager on 2025-Jan-23. The list was fairly extensive. Even if it were short, it can easily take a significant amount of time to check things with multiple teams internally to reach approval (or final "sorry, we give up") status. This repository's README "What is included" section will definitely be updated if what is included vs. what is not changes.