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On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:13:00AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> >  FreeBSD has been trying to not be quite as i386-centric as it used
..
> HWPMC is very x86 centric, for obvious reasons.

What is the obvious reason?  Many non-x86 CPU's have HW event counters.
(I assume you're not throwing ia64 into the x64 bucket).

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)