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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 22:33:14 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc
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* Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:50:43PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > We are sticking to a given version of the API. We could turn that 
> > into a function pointer and fill it in during startup via dlopen(). 
> > If it's NULL then we dont call it and assume a value of NULL.
> > 
> > Mind submitting such a version of your fix? It would nicely decrease 
> > the build requirements cross section surface of perf.
> > 
> 
> Assuming I remember how to use dlopen/dlsym, this might work. 
> Unfortunately I can't easily test anything this weekend, so I 
> don't actually know if it works... but it links ok.

looks good to me. Arnaldo, mind picking this up?

	Ingo