Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > perfctr has one API update pending, and then the API should be > > > in it final-ish form. David Gibson at IBM has done a ppc64 port, > > > which is about ready to be merged, and someone else has just > > > started working on a mips port. > > > > > > > That sounds good. Where do we stand now with ia64? Do we just end up > > agreeing to differ? > > I think so, yes. > > The ia64 perfmon has some features perfctr doesn't have, > but my perfctr API changes will allow perfctr to grow its > feature list and adapt to HW changes without breaking the API. > Its unlikely that perfctr will ever implement everything > perfmon does, but multiplexing and overflow sample buffering > are two features that should be added at some point.
Oh well, at least we tried. perfctr supports a lot of architectures and a fair few people want it, so let's get this merged up. Let's get the ppc64 port included too, just in case that forces late-breaking API changes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
