BPFd faciliates easier loading of eBPF programs using simple stdio interface.

One of the main usescases of this work is easier running of BCC tools across system and architecture boundaries for cross-development.

Before this project's birth, the BCC tools architecture was as follows:

BPFd based invocations partition this, thus making it possible to do cross-development and execution of the tools across machine and architecture boundaries. For instance, kernel sources that the BCC tools depend on can be on a development machine, with eBPF code being loaded onto a remote machine. This paritioning is illustrated in the following diagram

An article is in the works to explain the history and design more. Meanwhile look at INSTALL.md for easy to install package downloads, or slightly-more-compilicated build yourself instructions.

This project is very early, please help by submitting patches or documentation. Check the issue list!