From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:45:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:45:07 -0500 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:60677 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:45:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 03:51:27 +0000 From: John Levon To: Anton Blanchard Cc: Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] performance counters 3.1 for 2.5.45 [1/4]: x86 support Message-ID: <20021103035127.GA79202@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <200210312310.AAA07606@kim.it.uu.se> <20021101192201.GC2746@krispykreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101192201.GC2746@krispykreme> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz X-Scanner: exiscan *188BnL-000BDC-00*qZ.FrrFnP.6* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [snipped linus] On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:22:01AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Any chance that this and oprofile could share a common base? We are > interested in both oprofile and straight performance counting on > ppc64 and Id prefer not to implement the arch bits twice. Yes, it would be nice to do this. But I'm not sure what form this should take (yet) regards john -- "My first thought was I don't have any makeup. How will I survive without my makeup ? My second thought was I didn't have any identification. Who am I ?" - Earthquake victim