From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com (e33.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e33.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8FADDECB for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:08:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6AL8bSR022181 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:08:37 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l6AL8TYl088256 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:08:29 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6AL8Sbw006599 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:08:28 -0600 Subject: Re: Resend: [PATCH] oprofile support for Power 5++ From: Will Schmidt To: Michael Neuling In-Reply-To: <911.1184099498@neuling.org> References: <4693CC5B.4020207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <14287.1184096639@neuling.org> <4693E7EF.4020708@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <911.1184099498@neuling.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:07:39 -0500 Message-Id: <1184101660.22547.104.camel@farscape.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reply-To: will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:31 -0500, Michael Neuling wrote: > > > > > > Does it make more sense to call this "ppc64/power5+rev3"? > > > > > This is a change to support new counter setup for oprofile. It may be the > > same if there is a revision 4 or 5 etc. So since the internal name was ++ > > I followed that convention. There is an oprofile change already made, or in-flight, or at least submitted, that will be looking for the "power5++" string, so if the string changes here, it'll need to be changed there too. ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.oprofile/4670 ) > > I'm not too fussed, but if rev 4 comes out, the counters change and we > need power5+++, it's gonna look pretty silly :-) silly, but would be funny to see. :-) > > Mikey > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev