Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:41:17 -0500 From: "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@tamu.edu> To: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DTrace for FreeBSD- source snapshots Message-ID: <C6AC40E4-08B9-4C40-A2D9-794409C4417E@tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060608073823.GA34193@what-creek.com> References: <20060608073823.GA34193@what-creek.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Presumably since it's from Sun, it'll run on the FreeBSD/sparc64 machines as well? ;) Unfortunately, I don't have anything but i386 machines here (not counting a Powerbook), but how portable is this code? Can anybody verify it'll work on FreeBSD/amd64? mips? arm? leg? I'm definitely interested in the prospects of being able to use this while working on L4::BSD, since dtrace seems almost perfect for debugging kernel and other low level processes without all the magic and pixie dust I hear jhb and phk use... ;) Cheers, - -R. Tyler Ballance On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:38 AM, John Birrell wrote: > Since the Slashdot article <http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/ > 06/05/29/1144234.shtml> > and my last status update here, I've had numerous requests for > access to the > development sources for the DTrace port to FreeBSD. > > I had hoped to get the DTrace P4 project exported to CVS and then > to a CVSup > server, but that doesn't seem to be possible. The FreeBSD P4 admins > who can set > this up haven't responded to my emails. Sulk. > > The best that I can do at the moment is to make a tar-ball > containing the > entire FreeBSD-current source tree available for download. You can > get it from > <http://people.freebsd.org/~jb/dtrace/index.html>; > > There is also a link on that page to a diff of the changed files > and another > tar-ball of the added files in case you want to just look. > > You should regard this as pre-alpha quality. It's still a work-in- > progress. > It can crash your system and/or ruin your day. Don't ask me how I > know. 8-) > > The source tree will build on an i386 RELENG_6 machine (or a > current one) using a > standard 'buildworld'. The 'buildkernel' step will need to be: > 'make NO_CTF=1 buildkernel' at the moment due to the fact that the > buildkernel > phase doesn't seem to use the bootstrapped tools. That's a problem > that someone > could work on. Hint. 8-) > > If there is someone with a bit of spare time on their hands, I'd > like an install > ISO to be built using 'make release'. And someone else might care > to work on > producing a live CD using FreeSBIE <www.freebsie.org>. That would > be useful > too. > > One final note: If you want to help out, please don't tell me you > don't have > much spare time. I'm looking for people who can put a bit of effort > in. DTrace > isn't a trivial project. It touches every part of the operating > system. > > -- > John Birrell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEiCkAqO6nEJfroRsRAi7rAJwP1ArHZKsl5T2LIKW1hWqbR/R5RgCeNWE1 1FHD6WuD0aAbMZF+E8Jv9L4= =2s6B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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