[PATCH net-next 0/6] bpf: Enable BPF JIT on ppc32

Alexei Starovoitov alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 02:02:40 AEDT 2015


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Denis Kirjanov <kda at linux-powerpc.org> wrote:
> On 2/15/15, Daniel Borkmann <daniel at iogearbox.net> wrote:
>> On 02/15/2015 07:06 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
>>> This patch series enables BPF JIT on ppc32. There are relatevily
>>> few chnages in the code to make it work.
>>>
>>> All test_bpf tests passed both on 7447a and P2041-based machines.
>>
>> I'm just wondering, next to the feedback that has already been
>> provided, would opening this up for ppc32 make it significantly
>> more difficult in future to migrate from classic BPF JIT to eBPF
>> JIT eventually (which is what we want long-term)? Being curious,
>> is there any ongoing effort from ppc people?
>>
>
> Well, I don't see significant challenges to enable eBPF on ppc64 in the future.
> I'll start working on it after I get this merged

sounds great. looking forward to it :)


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