Enhancement Advisory libpfm enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2007:0205-3
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-04-30
Last updated on: 2007-06-19
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated libpfm package that adds support for the Montecito processors is
now available.

The libpfm library can be used to develop performance monitoring
applications using the IA-64 Performance Monitor Unit (PMU).

The Montecito processors differ in performance monitoring support from the
previous IPF processors. A backport of the Montecito support has been made
for the the Perfmon library in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Users of the libpfm library requiring Montecito support should install this
newly released package, which adds this capability.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.src.rpm     50c371e7da14863ae1d659f5e0dafdc3
 
IA-64:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     cfeb610766cf5f625d48777f379996be
libpfm-devel-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     1ba390e8d4faf629f022744193ee0d6d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.src.rpm     50c371e7da14863ae1d659f5e0dafdc3
 
IA-64:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     cfeb610766cf5f625d48777f379996be
libpfm-devel-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     1ba390e8d4faf629f022744193ee0d6d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.src.rpm     50c371e7da14863ae1d659f5e0dafdc3
 
IA-64:
libpfm-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     cfeb610766cf5f625d48777f379996be
libpfm-devel-3.0-12_EL.ia64.rpm     1ba390e8d4faf629f022744193ee0d6d
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Keywords

ia64, perfmon


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