On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Alexei Starovoitov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Richard Henderson via iovisor-dev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, that was quick.
>
> thanks!
>
> > Would someone from the iovisor project like to be the official contact
> for
> > this?  Otherwise I'll give them contact details for Red Hat.
>
> can probably put my name or something generic like 'BPF developers'.
> and [email protected] as an email.
> If you can leave the phone number empty that's the easiest.
> Brenden, any suggestions?
>

I don't think we have a generic phone number to give, but the usage of
iovisor-dev mailer sounds appropriate to me. Is there a precedent of using
an alias already?


> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:        Re: Request ELF e_machine number for Linux BPF
> > Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:15:49 +0200
> > From:   Michael.Brinke-Engel <[email protected]>
> > To:     Richard Henderson <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi RIchard,
> >
> > Thanks for your request.
> >
> > The following values for your request will be added to the web document
> of
> > gABI:
> >
> > EM_BPF    247    Linux BPF – in-kernel virtual machine
> >
> > Can you please let me have the necessary details for the official contact
> > with regard to this entry:
> >
> > *Contact info for EM_BPF*
> >
> >   * Name    ???
> >   * Phone   ???
> >   * E-mail    ???
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Brinke-Engel
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Am 16.06.2016 um 22:54 schrieb Richard Henderson:
> >
> >> The Linux kernel supports a virtual machine derived from the Berkeley
> >> Packet
> >> Filter (BPF) virtual machine.  LLVM has a compiler backend targeting
> this
> >> virtual machine, which produces ELF object files.
> >>
> >> Currently, the LLVM backend is using EM_NONE, which is less than optimal
> >> for
> >> the rest of the compiler tool chain.
> >>
> >> We request an official number for the symbolic name EM_BPF, so as to
> >> improve
> >> this situation.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> r~
> >
> >
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