* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> > I meant to add that I think it would be more productive if we (you and I)
> > were
> > to work on the library to extend it with external text-based event tables
> > that
> > could be used by perf either directly or thru the libpfm4 interface.
>
> That would be very useful indeed.. I think we talked about this before.
> Also wasn't there some vendor support for this idea as well?
>
> I think we want a format that is relatively simple to parse and human
> readable (which excludes XML on both counts ;-).
>
> The main objection of using libpfm4 has always been that its primarily
> something else. It also does the event listing thing, but that's only a
> small part of it.
>
> But if we can split out that part and use it in both projects that would
> be best I think.
If that libpfm reference library moved to tools/lib/ like
tools/lib/traceevents/ then that would be a nice, useful solution indeed.
Thanks,
Ingo
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