Re: RTC bug?

[William C. <wc...@nc...>]

I see that you have filed a bugzilla report on oprofile, 76455. The 
problem is the default RH Linux 8.0 kernel has the RTC support compiled 
into the kernel and this RTC support conflicts with the OProfile RTC 
support (P4 only supported via RTC mode).  You can pass a kernel option 
"nortc" in the grub.conf file to allow OProfile in RTC mode to be used 
on Pentium 4 (and other processors with unsupported performance 
monitoring hardware).

In the RH Linux kernel 8.0, OProfile is not a module. The OProfile 
support is compiled into the kernel. It shouldn't attempt to load a 
module. The error message you are seeing is a side effect of 
/proc/devices/oprofile not being there because the RTC conflict.

I will respond to bugzilla report at work tomorrow. I am the lucky 
person at Red Hat that gets OProfile bug reports.

If you have other software problems with the version of OProfile 
supplied with Red Hat Linux, please file bug reports in bugzilla.

-Will


John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:24:14PM -0700, Ian Ollmann wrote:
> 
> 
>>	I would like to use oprofile on a P4/RedHat 8 system. I think I am
> 
> 
> Please ask Red Hat about any bugs in their version of oprofile.
> 
> regards
> john