On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:30:14AM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > 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. > Yes, because it prints the PMU model not the processor model. On Madison, it prints Itanium 2. > --- > 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 -- -Stephane - 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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