From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:59:51 +0000 Subject: libpfm-3.0 is now available Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hello all, I have finally released version 3.0 of libpfm, a helper library for monitoring tools using the IA-64 PMU hardware. This new version includes many bug fixes, changes and cleanups. It is NOT backward compatible with libpfm-2.0. There are a few important interface changes which make it impossible to just recompile your applications, you need to adjust your source code. The changes are not drastic and the library comes with a extended set of examples showing how to use the new interface for all sorts of measurements. This new version of the library is meant to be used with the 2.6 kernel series ONLY. Even though the core of the library is NOW totally independent of the kernel interface you are using, the libpfm package comes with the kernel header files necessary to access the new Linux/ia64 perfmon-2 subsystem. All the examples have also been updated to use the kernel perfmon-2 interface. The perfmon-2 interface is not backward compatible with perfmon-1 found on all 2.4-based kernels. This version of the library supports Itanium, Itanium2 (McKinley, Madison, Deerfield, DP) and also a generic IA-64 CPU model. Make sure you take a look at the README for information about the package. The entire documentation along with some examples will shortly be made available online on the perfmon web site at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/perfmon You can download the library in source code or binary RPMs at: ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/libpfm-3.0.tar.gz MD5SUM: a30e16596202391256efe1e3a45058d5 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/libpfm-3.0-1.ia64.rpm MD5SUM: 3d984f6ca64506ff1a8e27352982cff5 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/libpfm-devel-3.0-1.ia64.rpm MD5SUM: dc4b3a80b446e7420a119a157b384feb If you need the library to run other packages such as pfmon, then you only need the runtime RPM package (libpfm-3.0-1.ia64.rpm). For developments, you need the other package (libpfm-devel-3.0-1.ia64.rpm) AS WELL. The control files to build the Debian packages are included in the tar file. Enjoy, PS: The library is required by pfmon-3.0 to be released very soon now. -- -Stephane