Re: Pentium 4

[Dave J. <da...@su...>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Gareth Hughes wrote:

> First off, let me introduce myself.  My name is Gareth Hughes, and I am
> one of the primary developers on the Mesa and DRI projects.  I now work
> at NVIDIA, and am currently working on improving performance of the
> NVIDIA Linux driver, particularly on the P4.

Excellent! Welcome to the project :)

> I wanted to let people know that I'm going to get oprofile up and
> running on the P4, so if others have done/are planning on looking at
> this

From my initial look at the P4 specs, it appears to be quite different
from the P6 implementation, but shouldn't be too difficult to get up
and running. Merging the Athlon support has given some of the needed
infrastructure for the multiple counters for eg.

> or if people have advice in general, I'd love to hear from you.  I
> plan on getting started this weekend, and will keep the list aprised of
> my progress.

Cool, both John and myself can frequently be found on irc.openprojects.net
in #oprofile (or #kernelnewbies if things are quiet) if you need to talk
about any of this.

> Before I go, a general word of thanks for all the work you guys have
> done on this project so far!  It's a great tool, and I hope to make it
> even better.

Look forward to your input.

regards,

Dave.

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