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Matej Kupljen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
>>I've got oprofile support for MIPS32 / MIPS64 style counters in the queue.
>>It still needs some debugging to become actually useful but anyway, I'm
>>going to check those patches into git in a few minutes.
> 
> 
> Can these be used on the AMD AU1200 core?
> (I don't see Register 25 on Coprocessor 0)
> 
> If OProfile cannot be used, what can I use to profile the kernel?
> 

If there are no performance counters, OProfile can still use the system 
timer to take samples each clock tick.  This is the way I am using it.

To use it in this manner you have to hack up the code a bit so that the 
return value of oprofile_arch_init() (in oprofile/common.c) is -ENODEV.

David Daney.