Progress on Adding BPF Support to the GNU Toolchain
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This article discusses the ongoing efforts to add BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) support to the GNU toolchain, which has historically been tied to LLVM. Developers from both the GNU tools and kernel communities met at the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron to coordinate this work. The article covers the technical challenges, current progress, and future roadmap for integrating BPF support into GCC and other GNU tools, highlighting the importance of this effort for making BPF more accessible to developers who prefer the GNU ecosystem.
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There has been a growing effort to add BPF support to the GNU toolchain as well.
At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the developers involved got together with representatives of the kernel community to talk about the integration.
Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended [...]
