On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:49 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> 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? Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
