Re: PPC970 support for OProfile

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:35:25AM -0500, Maynard P. Johnson wrote:

> Previously, Carl Love and I had contributed PPC64-enablement for 
> OProfile, but only for Power4 and Power5.  Attached is a patch that adds 
> PPC970 support to the current OProfile CVS source.  With this patch 
> applied, OProfile runs on 970 boxes with RHEL4 beta 1.  However, a 
> kernel patch is required in order to run with SLES 9.  We are requesting 
> that SUSE pick up the kernel patch and include it in SLES 9 SP1.  See 
> SuSE bug #47167.

The distribution kernels are not the baseline for OProfile. Is the
kernel patch in a kernel.org kernel (Andrew Morton's -mm tree is OK)? If
not, this patch shouldn't be applied to oprofile.sf.net sources
(distributions can do what they like).

If it's in a kernel.org kernel, this looks OK (I'll let Will apply it
after he's looked it over given his earlier complaints)

regards
john