On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:34:01PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Intel released the Itanium 9100 series (Montvale) a few days ago. > > My understanding is that the Montvale PMU is fully compatible with > the Montecito PMU (dual-core Itanium 9000 series). Thus, there will > not be any patches needed neither at the kernel level, nor in libpfm > or pfmon to support this new processor. Perfmon prints out "Montecito PMU" when booted on a Montvale. Updating the message may avoid some confusion. --- perfmon: version 2.0 IRQ 238 perfmon: Montecito PMU detected, 27 PMCs, 35 PMDs, 12 counters (47 bits) --- Both Montvale and Montecito are family 32. Montvale is model 1. Montecito is model 0. --- saturn1-10:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 1 model name : Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor 9150M [...] processor : 4 vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 0 model name : Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor 9040 --- > Those comments hold true for the mainline perfmon (v2.0) and > the development perfmon in GIT (v2.7). Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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