1 This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent 2 low-overhead system-wide profiler. 3 4 You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. 5 6 Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ 7 8 oprofile was written by John Levon <levon (a] movementarian.org> 9 and Philippe Elie <phil.el (a] wanadoo.fr>. 10 11 Maynard Johnson <maynardj (a] us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. 12 13 Dave Jones <davej (a] suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for 14 the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. 15 16 Bob Montgomery <bobm (a] fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC 17 driver and the initial ia64 driver. 18 19 Will Cohen <wcohen (a] redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the 20 oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. 21 22 Graydon Hoare <graydon (a] redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. 23 24 Ralf Baechle <ralf (a] linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port. 25 26 Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. 27 28 Building 29 -------- 30 31 Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or 32 http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. 33 34 Quick start : 35 36 (If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You 37 can specify a different version, e.g. 38 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) 39 40 2.4 kernels 41 42 ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source 43 44 2.6 kernels 45 46 ./configure --with-kernel-support 47
