1This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent
2low-overhead system-wide profiler.
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4You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory.
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6Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/
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8oprofile was written by John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
9and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>.
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11Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer.
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13Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for
14the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs.
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16Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC
17driver and the initial ia64 driver.
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19Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the
20oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups.
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22Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups.
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24Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port.
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26Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog.
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28Building
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31Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or
32http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html.
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34Quick start :
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36(If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You
37can specify a different version, e.g.
38ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh)
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402.4 kernels
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42	./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source
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442.6 kernels
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46	./configure --with-kernel-support
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