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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.
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)
2.4 kernels
./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source
2.6 kernels
./configure --with-kernel-support