[lttng-dev] supporting new processor

[Jérémie Galarneau]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Madhusudan Bhat <madhu.b77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know that, is there any stable release, which contains all
> the required components.
>
> Currently I am trying to build URCU on linux on x86 host. Basic bootstrap
> itself fails, I feel TOS may not be the good one?

I'm not sure I understand your question. If you mean a release
containing all required dependencies then unfortunately, no.
You can find a list of dependencies in each project's README file.

However, you will also need libtool, automake and autoconf to use the
current build system.

>
> thanks,
> Madhu.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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