Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] perf: generate events for BPF metadata

[Blake Jones]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fwiw, binutils is GPLv3 and license incompatible with perf which is
> largely GPLv2. This patch series deletes the code in perf using it and
> migrates the BPF disassembly to using capstone or libLLVM:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250417230740.86048-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
> The series isn't merged into upstream Linux but is in:
> https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-perf

Good to know. I'd be a bit concerned about the validity of testing my
changes with a 19-patch unmerged changeset, so I don't think I'm going
to try that for now.

Perhaps I'll just send along v4 of my changes, which has the fixes and
testing mentioned upthread.

Blake