Re: EF_BPF_GNU_XBPF

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:22 AM Jose E. Marchesi
<jose.marchesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello BPF people!
>
> In order to ease the testing of the GCC bpf port we are adding a number
> of extensions to the BPF ISA.
>
> We would like to use one bit in the e_flags field of the ELF header in
> order to flag that the code in the ELF file is not plain eBPF:
>
> For EM_BPF:
>
> #define EF_BPF_GNU_XBPF 0x00000001
>
> Any objection?

I've looked at your lpc slides and the extensions don't look like BPF
extensions.
At least I didn't see any attempt to make them verifiable.
In that sense it's not BPF and it's not correct to use EM_BPF for it.
I suggest to define your own EM for your ISA.



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