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Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> [...]  While I would love to believe that systemtap should work
> everywhere, I can't really see it running on an embedded board at
> this point.

FWIW, we have had people running (not compiling) systemtap probe
modules on embedded systems.  See "stap -p4" or "stap-server".

- FChE