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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT
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Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>
>> Beginning with Power6, there is a set of 32 PMU events which is
>> compatible across POWER processor lines.  PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT
>> indicates support for this subset.
>
> The PMU isn't, as far as I know, part of the architecture, it's up to  
> each implementation to do as it pleases. Right? So this should probably 
> be named less generic.

Yeah, you're right.  Will change it to PSERIES_PMU_COMPAT or similar.