Re: oprofile PPC support

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

The ppc64 just uses the timer interrupt mechanism, so it doesn't have a 
unique identifier for the cpu, so no change should be required for the 
userspace oprofile. For the alpha processors oprofile support  makes use 
of the performance monitoring hardware and a patch is needed for the 
user space oprofile.

-Will

John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:30:36PM +0000, Philippe Elie wrote:
> 
> 
>>You need also a patch to user space tools, Anton Blanchard,
>>should know where it is available. Probably searching kernel
>>mail list will help.
> 
> 
> Do we ? I don't think we need anything more
> 
> There's no counter support after all
> 
> regards
> john