ply: add new package

[zhaojh329]

A light-weight dynamic tracer for Linux that leverages the kernel's BPF VM in concert with kprobes and tracepoints to attach probes to arbitrary points in the kernel.

Maintainer: me
Compile tested: (aarch64, GL-MT6000, master)
Run tested: (aarch64, GL-MT6000, master, tests done)

Description:
https://github.com/iovisor/ply

[1715173329]

Looks like upstream is dead.

[1715173329]

https://github.com/iovisor/ply

This repo seems like a pure fork without any additional changes.

[guidosarducci]

@zhaojh329

Good to see someone else interested in this. If you look at the upstream discussion, a couple of us were involved with development of mips support using OpenWrt for testing ~2 years ago. Since then, I've been regularly building and testing an OpenWrt ply package alongside other BPF improvements I've added. My package targets the main openwrt repo, similar to perf, but was never PRed for various reasons. I'll go ahead and make a PR there, maybe as a draft for initial discussion, and I'll ping you for feedback so we can sort through the differences. I haven't yet looked closely at your PR...

@1715173329

Looks like upstream is dead.

I would say stable/slow rather than dead.

This repo seems like a pure fork without any additional changes.

I've seen it mentioned that the official github repo was moved to iovisor from the author's personal page.

[1715173329]

Hauke has merged this package into core repo, so I will close this PR.
FYI openwrt/openwrt@87d5d38