[Cbe-oss-dev] OProfile userspace patches for Cell Broadband Engine

[Bob Nelson]

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:39 -0500, Bob Nelson wrote:
>   
>> The attached file contains a collection of patches to OProfile 0.9.3
>> (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/ ) that reflects a current
>> implementation of OProfile for the Cell Broadband Engine.
>>     
>
> For the Cell in general, or just for IBM Cell blades? ie. does this
> support oprofile on PS3/celleb?
>
> cheers
>
>   
It will not work on the PS3.  My understanding is that at least parts of 
the PMU hardware used
is physically disabled on the PS3.  We also use SLOF calls to initialize 
the PMU which do not
exist on the PS3.

Bob