Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 07:03:53AM CET, zenczykow...@gmail.com wrote: >One thing to consider... > >Just because the compiler could be in the kernel, doesn't mean it has to be. > >One could envision a hotplug/modprobe like helper program that the >kernel executes >when it wants to translate from one encoding (say p4) to another (say [e]bpf). > >This keeps complexity (compiler) out of the kernel, while still >allowing us to have >the illusion of only one interface to sw/hw. And it has the nice >benefit of allowing us >to use existing compiler toolchains...
This idea was repeatedly marked as unacceptable.
