| This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent |
| low-overhead system-wide profiler. |
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| You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. |
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| Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ |
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| oprofile was written by John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> |
| and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>. |
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| Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. |
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| Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for |
| the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. |
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| Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC |
| driver and the initial ia64 driver. |
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| Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the |
| oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. |
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| Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. |
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| Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port. |
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| Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. |
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| Building |
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| Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or |
| http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. |
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| Quick start : |
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| (If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You |
| can specify a different version, e.g. |
| ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) |
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| 2.4 kernels |
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| ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source |
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| 2.6 kernels |
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| ./configure --with-kernel-support |
