[lttng-dev] supporting new processor

[Jérémie Galarneau]

MIPS support was added as part of the Userspace RCU 0.7.4 release.
Can't say I have tried it myself though.

Regards,
Jérémie

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Madhusudan Bhat <madhu.b77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jérémie,
>
> Thanks for the response. You have mentioned that MIPS is supported. However
> README under U-RCU doesn't list the MIPS under the supported architecture.
> Is it possible to confirm again?
>
> Is there any order in which I need to build the different components like
> URCU, lttng-tools, kernel module and UST?
> thanks,
> Madhu.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Jérémie Galarneau
> <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Generally speaking, URCU is the most architecture-specific library of
>> the project and it does support MIPS. Once it is compiled and
>> installed, you should be able to build lttng-ust, lttng-tools and the
>> kernel modules.
>>
>> I'd recommend running each project's test suite since I don't think
>> that architecture has been thoroughly tested. Let us know if you
>> encounter any problem on your particular architecture.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jérémie
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Madhusudan Bhat <madhu.b77 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I need to support lttng tools, I have new MIPS based multi core
>> > processor on
>> > which 3.7 linux kernel boots up.
>> >
>> > To support lttng tools, does it require any drivers/kernel hook ups to
>> > new
>> > processor? Or is it independent of processor architecture?
>> >
>> > For ex, to support Oprofile tools, we need to provide oprofile driver
>> > which
>> > is specific to particular processor. In similar ways,any thing is
>> > required
>> > to support lttng tools?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Madhu.
>> >
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>>
>>
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>
>



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