Ping, what is up with this nowadays? I'm still not seeing this in Focals kernels (but as mentioned before in Debian).
This blocks XDP support in DPDK for 20.04. And most likely will make us need a Delta to Debian :-/ Therefore I wanted to ask if there is any update on this, a clear blocker so I can plan for "this will never happen" or an ETA that I can plan a merge of the new DPDK around? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836708 Title: Please package libbpf (which is done out of the kernel src) in Debian [for 19.10] Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Hi, Debian packages libbpf and so far does so out of the kernel source [1]. There is some movement to separate that from the kernel source [2] but this isn't ready yet. So far it is just a sync of the subtree out of the kernel sources. Since we do not share our kernel packaging we will not get this for-free without doing anything. If there will be an ITP about it in Debian I'll let you know and we can abort this, but unless that really happens I wanted to ask if you could as well build the libbpf* packages for 19.10 and onward? Note: this is not the same bpf lib as [3] despite the similarity in names. Reasoning: BPF becomes more and more important in general and is used in the kernel for many things. In the case that brought it to my attention it will be a PMD of DPDK that will need it to control XDP [4]. And XDP in general is an interesting and rising feature for network acceleration - I'd think it would be helpful to have this package around in Ubuntu. --- FYI here the package info from buster as of today root@d10-buster:~# apt-cache show libbpf-dev libbpf4.19 Package: libbpf-dev Source: linux Version: 4.19.28-2 Installed-Size: 350 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libbpf4.19 (= 4.19.28-2) Description-en: eBPF helper library (development files) libbpf is a library for loading eBPF programs and reading and manipulating eBPF objects from user-space. Description-md5: b8834dcec31d23cd9577fbae4ac6a867 Multi-Arch: same Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/ Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib Section: libdevel Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/l/linux/libbpf-dev_4.19.28-2_amd64.deb Size: 262268 MD5sum: 2ab356bbbc421ac44f4106b6cf234f17 SHA256: f567734a69bc472f2f5a546ace4ad3abf42d69f09d2613bca52a411d78179718 Package: libbpf4.19 Source: linux Version: 4.19.28-2 Installed-Size: 318 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.26), libelf1 (>= 0.131) Description-en: eBPF helper library (shared library) libbpf is a library for loading eBPF programs and reading and manipulating eBPF objects from user-space. Description-md5: 320aac663a5bd3caf223c7aa27857113 Multi-Arch: same Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/ Tag: role::shared-lib Section: libs Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/l/linux/libbpf4.19_4.19.28-2_amd64.deb Size: 259924 MD5sum: bbb27965530e4101d43b7226fd563840 SHA256: 18fdf5da4a90c8f42dedb8db510324d09d28f11eb2fa1b364508b14a95d5179b --- [1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbpf-dev [2]: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf [3]: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc [4]: https://www.iovisor.org/technology/xdp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1836708/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
