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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:09:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] sh: oprofile: Use perf-events oprofile backend
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To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:06:54PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> Matt and Paul,
> 
> are those (upper case) cpu_type strings already supported by the
> oprofile userland?
> 
I've only ever used out-of-tree patches with it due to the generally
volatile nature of support. Now that we have a more consistent interface
to go through, it probably makes sense to get those bits merged, too.
We're certainly not tied down to any ABI at this point.