oprofile 0.0.7 has been released

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

oprofile 0.0.7 has been released. oprofile is still in alpha.
Downloadable as usual from http://sf.net/projects/oprofile/

Release notes
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Usage of the post-profiling tools has changed slightly.

You must remove your /root/.oprofile, as the format has changed.

Known bugs
----------

Booting with the "nosmp" option with kernels < 2.4.10 will not
work with oprofile (bug #463087).

The kernel pre-emption patch is not supported for use with oprofile
(bug #478516).

2.4.13-ac8 is not supported due to the introduction of a broken
hard_get_current() (bug #478943).
 
New features
------------

Major speed improvements on SMP machines, especially under higher 
profiling loads.

Other performance improvements.
 
Bugfixes
--------

Mobile P6 machines are detected and rejected correctly (bug #476234).
 
The NMI oopser is restored when unloading the module (bug #464094).

Builds with some kernels such as Mandrake's have been fixed
(bug #471448).

The installation mechanism is improved (bug #474678).
 
A Qt2 configure problem has been fixed.