The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669

  • Somewhat related:

    > P4 is a programming language for controlling packet forwarding planes in networking devices, such as routers and switches. In contrast to a general purpose language such as C or Python, P4 is a domain-specific language with a number of constructs optimized for network data forwarding. P4 is distributed as open-source, permissively licensed code, and is maintained by the P4 Project (formerly the P4 Language Consortium), a not-for-profit organization hosted by the Open Networking Foundation.

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P4_(programming_language)

  • So… eBPF is now BPF and old BPF is now cBPF or classic bpf.

  • Is this going to be like the DeviceTree standard? The kernels devs invent it, it gets an official specification/standard, but the kernel itself doesn't conform to that specification?

  • Nice... timing to get that number.