On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:13:32AM +0200, Marc Titinger wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just being curious : do these patches change the way those chips > should be supported, that do not have a PMU-like IP, but implement > PC-sampling thanks to a general purpose timer (not the system timer) > ? CPUs that do not have a PMU are not required to use the perf-events oprofile backend, it is entirely optional. The pc-sampling timer in oprofile is not affected by this series. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html