On Thursday, January 22, 2015 09:16:43 AM Purcareata Bogdan wrote: > On 22.01.2015 09:12, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:23:42PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Purcareata Bogdan wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I noticed a patch from a while ago on the mailing list adding support > >>>> for PowerPC platforms and zSeries [1]. The patch, however, has not been > >>>> upstreamed due to some issues in the testsuite. I was wondering whether > >>>> there have been any news on the patch and whether it's still of > >>>> interest. > >>>> > >>>> I'm interested in running LXC containers on PowerPC platforms, and > >>>> would > >>>> like to have seccomp support as well. Right now, I don't have much > >>>> experience with seccomp, but I would be glad to start looking at the > >>>> code and contribute. > >>>> > >>>> [1]http://sourceforge.net/p/libseccomp/mailman/message/32609277/ > >>> > >>> I did not continue on this patch as my other work is keeping me very > >>> busy, > >>> sadly also for the foreseeable future. > >>> > >>> Feel free to take and improve. > >> > >> I also put together some patches to support ppc64, but never tested > >> them on a ppc64 system, and to be honest it was a few months ago so > >> I'm not sure what state they are in ... if you are interested I can > >> try to dust them off and post them here. > > > > I can still test ppc32 and ppc64 (big or little endian) if there is need. > > Anything would be great. I'm planning to develop and test both ppc and > ppc64 Linux. Not sure at this point if there is any impact, but the > platforms I'm working on are book3e, not book3s. > > Unfortunately I don't have access to any zSeries platforms.
To clarify, are you planning to also develop the necessary kernel support? One of the reasons we do not support ppc* in libseccomp is that the kernel is currently lacking (or at least it was when I looked a few months ago) the necessary CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER support. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ libseccomp-discuss mailing list libseccomp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libseccomp-discuss
