[lttng-dev] supporting new processor

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Tue Jun 11 11:20:11 EDT 2013


I just added MIPS to the urcu README file in master.

Thanks,

Mathieu

* Jérémie Galarneau (jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com) wrote:
> 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jérémie Galarneau
> >> EfficiOS Inc.
> >> http://www.efficios.com
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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