Re: [libseccomp-discuss] Support for PowerPC platforms

[Paul M. <pa...@pa...>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Marcus Meissner <mei...@su...> 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.

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paul moore
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