From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Mike Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: adjust oprofile_cpu_type
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:52:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090423175210.GB4732@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240443612.27209.2.camel@mx3>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:40:12PM -0500, Mike Wolf wrote:
> Resending. the patch was munged last time.
>
>
> Oprofile is changing the naming it is using for the compatibility modes.
> Instead of having compat-power<x>, oprofile will go to family naming
> convention and use compat-v<x>. Currently only compat-v1 will be
> defined.
Compat V1 of what? powerpc64? IBM powerpc64 PMC? The performance
monitors are not architected, to give them a version number without
vendor information seems weird.
Also, doesn't this break compatibility with existing userspace tools?
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 23:40 [PATCH] powerpc: adjust oprofile_cpu_type Mike Wolf
2009-04-23 3:47 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 17:52 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2009-04-23 21:56 ` Mike Wolf
2009-04-23 22:09 ` Olof Johansson
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2009-04-17 19:48 Mike Wolf
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