Resend: [PATCH] oprofile support for Power 5++

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Wed Jul 11 06:31:38 EST 2007


> >
> > Does it make more sense to call this "ppc64/power5+rev3"?  
> >   
> This is a change to support new counter setup for oprofile.  It may be the
> same if there is a revision 4 or 5 etc.  So since the internal name was ++
> I followed that convention. 

I'm not too fussed, but if rev 4 comes out, the counters change and we
need power5+++, it's gonna look pretty silly :-)

Mikey



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