Re: BPF64: proposal of platform-independent hardware-friendly backwards-compatible eBPF alternative

["Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk%phk.freebsd.dk@localhost>]

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Vadim Goncharov writes:

> I've put a sketch of design to https://github.com/nuclight/bpf64 with files:

Counter proposal:

1. Define the Lua execution environment in the kernel.

2. Add syscall to submit a precompiled Lua program (as bytecode)

3. Add syscall to execute submitted Lua program

And yes:  I'm being 100% serious.

If we are going to reinvent "Channel Programs" 67 years after IBM
came up with them for their 709 vacuum tube computer, at the very
least we should use a sensible language syntax.

Poul-Henning

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