The proposed intro paragraph text is derived from the first paragraph of the IETF BPF WG charter at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bpf/about/ Signed-off-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst index d03d90afb..b44bdacd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/standardization/instruction-set.rst @@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ BPF Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ====================================== -This document specifies the BPF instruction set architecture (ISA). +eBPF (which is no longer an acronym for anything), also commonly +referred to as BPF, is a technology with origins in the Linux kernel +that can run untrusted programs in a privileged context such as an +operating system kernel. This document specifies the BPF instruction +set architecture (ISA). Documentation conventions ========================= -- 2.40.1
