Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

[Jim Gettys]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 09:54 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
> You could copy over the oprofile samples files and do the analysis on another 
> machine. Nothing says that the debuginfo must be on the machine collecting the data.
> 
> I asked about the location of the debuginfo files before. They were not 
> generally available. The kernel debuginfo rpms are the one exception. They can 
> be obtained from:
> 
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/stable/
> 
> It would be good to make the olpc debuginfo rpms available like the fedora core 
> packages.

Please enter this into the trac system so we can make sure this happens
at some point.
                                    - Jim

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> -Will
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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child