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Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 07:03:53AM CET, zenczykowski@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.