Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:27:31 +0530 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERFMON with Athlon breaks ata. Message-ID: <84dead720511182057w39e2d7d2g37a14a5f4a76f4c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <437EABD3.3000004@sasktel.net> References: <001f01c5ebbb$96f09c90$5200a8c0@backoffice> <84dead720511172135q5b17a4ecud4b3b586d191fd3e@mail.gmail.com> <437EABD3.3000004@sasktel.net>
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jk>AFAIR, "PERFMON" only supports Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs. sh> Yeah, wasn't sure... I know the Athlon has a performance sh> counter, but wasn't sure if it was supported etc. Assumed sh> not, but just thought I'd mention it in case it's supposed to sh> work. The Athlon's performance counters are supported by the hwpmc(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x. See pmcstat(8) for a simple command-line tool and libpmc(3) for an API to use them. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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