From: Stephane E. <er...@hp...> - 2006-04-12 15:28:45
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Don, On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > What other changes do I need to do for my changes to be acceptable. I > know I still have to port to the p4 (which I get sick every time I > think about the work needed) and some stubs for i386. Other than > that, how do I go about getting the tools to accept this? Should I > just post the patch and let them build off of it? > As John said, just post the kernel patch to lkml and the oprofile patch to the Oprofile mailing list. As Andi said, the non-modified tool wil just fail if they try to access an unavailable register. Once your patch is in the kernel, I'll update the perfmon2 subsystem to use it. I have already modified my user level tools to take into account the fact that some registers may not be available. -- -stephane |