Quentin Monnet <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I have the pleasure to announce the availability of a mirror for bpftool on GitHub, at the following URL: > [...] > 3. Another objective was to help other projects build on top of the existing sources for bpftool. I'm thinking in > particular of eBPF-for-Windows, which has been working on a proof-of-concept port of the tool for Windows [1]. > Bpftool's mirror keeps the minimal amount of necessary headers, and stripped most of them from the definitions > that are not required in our context, which should make it easier to uncouple bpftool from Linux. > [...] > Just to make it clear, bpftool's mirror does not change the fact that all bpftool development happens on the > kernel mailing-lists (in particular, the BPF mailing-list), and that the sources hosted in the kernel repository > remain the reference for the tool. At this time the GitHub repository is just a mirror, and will not accept pull > requests on bpftool's sources. Thanks Quentin, this is a great first step! I can update the ebpf-for-windows project to use this as a submodule. Longer term, is the goal to make the mirror be the authoritative reference, or to make the Linux kernel repository not be Linux-only but accept non-Linux patches to bpftool? Dave
