severity 423934 wishlist
tags 423934 upstream
retitle 423934 systemtap: please support other architectures
thanks
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> That is true that systemtap can be built on more architectures, I was
> was built for all supported architectures in the past. But systemtap
> generates C files for running kernel and compiles them to modules. Those
> C files contain some architecture specific stuff, they need to handle
> stack and registers for example (see
> /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/{stack-*.c,regs*.c}, also they need support
> for kprobes in the kernel, it is only available for supported by
> systemtap architectures and for sparc and arm AFAIK. You can try to use
> systemtap on alpha, but I do not think it will be successful. See
> README.Debian for instructions on how to compile kernel for use with
> systemtap.
Ok, good reasons :-) I'm downgrading this bug to 'wishlist', then; feel
free to close it if you think that's best.
Thanks,
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