On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:58:54AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:49 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > In QEMU there's a desire to make use of BPF programs for implementing > > some networking features. The current patches are proposing adding > > prebuilt BPF byte code to the QEMU repo, with source available, but > > not actually building from source during a build. > > > > I was wondering if we had any specific guidance or rules covering the > > shipping BPF programs in particular ? > > > > To me it feels like BPF programs should fall under normal Fedora > > practice that expects everything to be built from master source. > > > > We do have the exception that allows firmware to be shipped as > > pre-built blobs, but I'm thinking that BPF programs could not > > be considered as firmware. > > > > Has this been discussed before, if so can someone point to the > > results, as I'm not finding anything specific to BPF programs and > > Fedora packaging via Google. > > > > Regards, > > Daniel > > If there are no specialized Packaging Guidelines for something, then > the general guidelines apply - so in this case, compiling from source > is required, since Fedora packages MUST NOT ship precompiled binaries. > > Side note: Regarding BPF programs - I seem to remember that recent > kernel security features (the Lockdown patches?) restricted and/or > disabled the ability to run BPF programs at all. Have you considered > that by default, those BPF programs might not be able to run under the > Fedora default configuration? Yes, that is one of the issues raised upstream by other people. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
