On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:52 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > 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?
IBM powerpc PMC > The performance > monitors are not architected, to give them a version number without > vendor information seems weird. The current ones all fall into one family and they may be architected in the future. > > Also, doesn't this break compatibility with existing userspace tools? AFAIK there is nothing else that uses these. Oprofile patch was rejected and this new naming was suggested from that community. Mike _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
