From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:4978:20e::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D09D2C036E for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:57:44 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 14:57:00 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: Make Power7 events available for perf Message-ID: <20130704125700.GM18898@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1372170933-4538-1-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1372170933-4538-3-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130704125218.GA21134@concordia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20130704125218.GA21134@concordia> Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu, Vince Weaver , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Runzhen Wang , sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, mingo@kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:52:18PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > I don't think it even needs libpfm4, just some csv files in tools/perf > would do the trick. Right; I think Stephane and Jiri are in favour of creating a 'new' project that includes just the event definitions in a plain text format and a little library with parser to be used by all interested parties. Its just not something that's moving along at any pace at all atm :/