Phil, On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Philip J. Mucci wrote: > Well, there goes PAPI support for Perfmon2 with the upcoming PAPI 3.5 > release. :-( > > Stefane, could you please keep the old snapshot of PFM around for PAPI > users sake.
I could keep the 2.6.18 snapshot + minor updates. > > Why don't they make useful suggestions, like being able to declare the > sample buffer outside of the create/load context call or removing the > load/create pair altogether. These changes maybe LKML friendly, but they > do not make programming the API any more flexible or robust. Could you develop a bit more on those two points? What would it buy you? I am not sure I understand 'remove create/load'. How would you declare you need the PMU resource? > > Argh. Oh well, whatever they say, as long as they accept the damn thing > in the kernel. > That's why I made the changes. The key to me is that there is no loss of functionalities. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
