Corey,

I have applied the patch to CVS. Please try it out and let me know
if you find problems.

Thanks for your contributions.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0700, Corey Ashford wrote:
> Hi Stephane,
> 
> In a separate email (this time) I will be posting up a new version of 
> the patch which corrects the errors you found.
> 
> As a result of thinking things through a little more, I decided to 
> backtrack on a decision I had made to separate out the PowerPC from the 
> PPC64 implementation.  This is at least partially because some of the 
> include code gets confusing as it's based upon a define of __powerpc__ 
> which is defined for both 32-bit and 64-bit POWER and PowerPC processors.
> 
> So I've unified the implementation into a single pfmlib_gen_powerpc.c 
> file.  If someone decides to do the engineering required for the 32-bit 
> processors at some point, perhaps they will be able to make use of what 
> I've done so far, or maybe they will need to break away from that.  But 
> in the meantime, I've made the guess that the code will be able to be 
> reused and that the processor-specific differences can be resolved at 
> runtime.
> 
> This patch also contains a new file in the docs/man3 directory - 
> libpfm_powerpc.3, containing some info on this implementation.
> 
> One other thing: this implementation obsoletes the file 
> lib/pfmlib_powerpc.c as it really needed to be renamed to 
> pfmlib_gen_powerpc.c, so that removal is in the patch file as well.
> 
> - Corey
> 
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> Corey Ashford
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> Beaverton, OR
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