diff --git a/backends/tofino/bf-p4c/driver/p4c.tofino2.cfg b/backends/tofino/bf-p4c/driver/p4c.tofino2.cfg
index 1a8852ffc41..1a8001e26fe 100644
--- a/backends/tofino/bf-p4c/driver/p4c.tofino2.cfg
+++ b/backends/tofino/bf-p4c/driver/p4c.tofino2.cfg
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Tofino2Backend(bfn.BarefootBackend):
 
     def process_command_line_options(self, opts):
         if opts.enable_bf_asm or os.getenv("ENABLE_BF_ASM"):
-            self.config_assembler(self.target)
+            self.config_assembler(self._target)
         bfn.BarefootBackend.process_command_line_options(self, opts)
 
 for t in Tofino2Variants.keys():