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bpf, docs: Add introduction for use in the ISA Internet Draft
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The proposed intro paragraph text is derived from the first paragraph
of the IETF BPF WG charter at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bpf/about/

Signed-off-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler1968@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240422190942.24658-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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BPF Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
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This document specifies the BPF instruction set architecture (ISA).
eBPF (which is no longer an acronym for anything), also commonly
referred to as BPF, is a technology with origins in the Linux kernel
that can run untrusted programs in a privileged context such as an
operating system kernel. This document specifies the BPF instruction
set architecture (ISA).

Documentation conventions
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