From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Fr=F6berg?= Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:48:45 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] perf: new package In-Reply-To: <50E5A2B4.6090405@petroprogram.com> References: <1357225671-18101-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <50E5A2B4.6090405@petroprogram.com> Message-ID: <50E5A85D.5050102@petroprogram.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 3.1.2013 17:24, Stefan Fr?berg kirjoitti: > 3.1.2013 17:07, Thomas Petazzoni kirjoitti: >> This patch adds a new package that allows to build the 'perf' >> userspace tool that comes in the tools/perf directory of the kernel >> sources. >> >> It is an alternative proposal to the one done by Kaiwan Billimoria >> , in that it creates the package in >> package/perf/. It therefore properly integrates with the Buildroot >> package infrastructure. >> >> Of course, the package depends on the Linux kernel to be built by >> Buildroot, in order to get Perf sources matching the version of the >> kernel that will be executed. >> >> One remaining issue is that this package only builds properly with >> kernel >= v3.7 (but it was the same with Kaiwan proposal) : the >> NO_LIBELF variable, which allows to get rid of the libelf dependency, >> has only been introduced between 3.6 and 3.7. If we want to support >> older kernel versions, we'll have to create a package for libelf. > Here is an elfutils 0.155 (which contains libelf) for buildroot that I > posted some time ago. > Patch #4 is missing from that list because it was too big to submit to > this list. > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063855.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063856.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063864.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063858.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063857.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063859.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063861.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063860.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063863.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063862.html > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063865.html > > Regards > Stefan > And now while i *still* remember, that first patch, patch #1 should be replaced with this http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-December/063876.html > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot