I also ended up on the other side of the mic for two sessions this year.

BPF Tokens in Linux Distributions

I presented a proposal to finally delegate safe eBPF access without requiring full root privileges. This has become a major focus for us; we are collaborating on a System-Wide Change for Fedora 45 and will be following up with a joint session at Flock with Viktor Malik from the Kernel team. The ultimate goal is to land this support in RHEL 11.

Packaging eBPF Programs

In the Distro room, I discussed the practical headaches of shipping eBPF binaries — handling JIT, CO-RE, and cross-kernel compatibility — in standard package formats.