This talk covers the ongoing effort about adding eBPF support to the GNU Toolchain. eBPF is a virtual machine running within the Linux kernel; initially intended for user-level packet capture and filtering, eBPF has since been generalized to also serve as a general-purpose infrastructure for non-networking purposes.

GNU poke is a new interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.