Re: [oprof-cvs] CVS: oprofile/module compat.h,1.6,1.7

[Philippe E. <ph...@cl...>]

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote:
> 
> > ok. btw, the apic setup is seriously broken on 2.2, even when we add the proper fixmap
> > code back in.
> 
> btw, I'm curious.. why the sudden activity to get it working on 2.2 ?

A friend have requested that and I think he is not the only people
in this case. He work in a laboratory on a 2.2 and the sys admin worry
about upgrade just for one application. Think in term of end-user
rather of kernel hacker, user don't want to reinstall a kernel too many
time, that's just a loss of time

Also I think it is not bad for oprofile to remove as restriction of use as
we can. After porting to 2.2 and adding the RTC patch it can be used
nearly on the most used kernel version and the most used hardware. 

Phil