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

[Will Schmidt]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:31 -0500, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > >
> > > 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. 

There is an oprofile change already made, or in-flight, or at least
submitted, that will be looking for the "power5++" string, so if the
string changes here, it'll need to be changed there too. 

( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.oprofile/4670 )

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

silly, but would be funny to see.  :-) 

> 
> Mikey
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