| This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent | |
| low-overhead system-wide profiler. | |
| You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. | |
| Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ | |
| oprofile was written by John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> | |
| and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>. | |
| Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. | |
| Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for | |
| the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. | |
| Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC | |
| driver and the initial ia64 driver. | |
| Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the | |
| oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. | |
| Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. | |
| Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port. | |
| Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. | |
| Building | |
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| Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or | |
| http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. | |
| Only 2.6 kernels are supported. | |
| Quick start : | |
| (If using git: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You | |
| can specify a different version, e.g. | |
| ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) | |
| Then run the following commands | |
| ./configure [options] (use './configure --help' to see options) | |
| make | |