[PATCH] Add PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Sat Jul 5 15:10:27 EST 2008
On Jul 3, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Beginning with Power6, there is a set of 32 PMU events which is
> compatible across POWER processor lines. PPC_FEATURE_PMU_COMPAT
> indicates support for this subset.
The PMU isn't, as far as I know, part of the architecture, it's up to
each implementation to do as it pleases. Right? So this should
probably be named less generic.
-Olof
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