Re: [perfmon2] [patch] 32-bit athlon with 2.6.24

[Vince W. <vi...@cs...>]

> >  32-bit athlon support still isn't there in libpfm.  Is this on somebody's
> >  TODO list?
> >
> That does not surprise me. I did not do any work on this. AFAIK, nobody
> is working on this.

OK.  There has been a lot of work on the amd64 code, and I wasn't sure
if any of the AMD people had interest in the old athlon chips.

> >  The attached patch gets it working for me, but obviously it's not a
> >  complete fix.
> >
> Ok, will look at it for next version.

It's just a quick fix, mainly because right now all I care about are cycle
counts and retired instructions.

A proper fix would make sure that only 32-bit athlon counters were enabled
on 32-bit systems, but I don't have time right now to dig through the
manuals for that level of support.

Vince