Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:17 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> William Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Could we turn that on in near future. Then people can avoid building custom 
> > kernels to run OProfile? The 314 build still doesn't have OProfile enabled. Who 
> > do I need to make the request to change the line in the kernel config files to 
> > mke oprofile support available?
> 
> How do we get useful oprofile output with all binaries stripped and no
> -debuginfo packages?

Don't strip binaries, and provide debuginfo packages during development
stages.  Otherwise you'll a) never get symbols, and b) never get source
lines are variable names that really help while debugging.

Dan