Re: [PATCH 0/3] Generalise ARM perf-events backend for oprofile

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 10:07 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Ideally, the OProfile userspace tools would talk native perf and we
> could do away with oprofilefs and the oprofile buffer altogether.
> Compatibility with the old [read current] OProfile tools can be
> maintained using these patches until the API is deprecated.
> 
> Or is that a bit too optimistic? :) 

Heh, well, dunno, I suspect just moving userspace to native perf tools
is going to happen as soon is not sooner :-)

Ben.

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