Enhancement Advisory oprofile enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2007:0796-6
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-11-15
Last updated on: 2007-11-15
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
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

Updated oprofile packages that add support for the AMD Family 10, IBM
Power6, and IBM PowerPC 970MP processors are now available.

oprofile is a system-wide profiler that uses the performance counters
provided by processors.

These updated packages add performance monitoring support for the
AMD Family 10, IBM POWER6, and IBM PowerPC 970MP processors.

Users wanting performance monitoring events for the AMD Family 10, IBM
POWER6, and IBM PowerPC 970MP processors should upgrade to these updated
packages, which add these enhancements.


Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.src.rpm     932eef5c5fc1240b21ccbd1626330de3
 
IA-32:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     08b08d4cead13b53bde6a24637bb4128
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     8b954fd95c3318f85fd5fbbe757fb372
 
x86_64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     b00dcb7346ee7cb0199107fa105c62cf
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     cb5b39ae217073f3d475d5f8cb47b54a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.src.rpm     932eef5c5fc1240b21ccbd1626330de3
 
IA-32:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     08b08d4cead13b53bde6a24637bb4128
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     8b954fd95c3318f85fd5fbbe757fb372
 
IA-64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     05e305eedbdbd37d8b24e09a07a2e994
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     da83d846f15b05ff2b473982335db0f3
 
PPC:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.ppc.rpm     a39943cc58d6c6a51db9d8c498cf964d
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.ppc.rpm     e095b30ebe9ef9341739c70a01bd43c5
 
s390:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.s390.rpm     d6f3dacb759d09d5808e639f70ba5a7d
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.s390.rpm     2c845c9fa0b618571315b93958f256ed
 
s390x:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.s390x.rpm     0787246a170a2c250857a1962049ee2e
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.s390x.rpm     110c322daacf6326773a785ddc801997
 
x86_64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     b00dcb7346ee7cb0199107fa105c62cf
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     cb5b39ae217073f3d475d5f8cb47b54a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.src.rpm     932eef5c5fc1240b21ccbd1626330de3
 
IA-32:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     08b08d4cead13b53bde6a24637bb4128
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     8b954fd95c3318f85fd5fbbe757fb372
 
IA-64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     05e305eedbdbd37d8b24e09a07a2e994
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     da83d846f15b05ff2b473982335db0f3
 
x86_64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     b00dcb7346ee7cb0199107fa105c62cf
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     cb5b39ae217073f3d475d5f8cb47b54a
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.src.rpm     932eef5c5fc1240b21ccbd1626330de3
 
IA-32:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     08b08d4cead13b53bde6a24637bb4128
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.i386.rpm     8b954fd95c3318f85fd5fbbe757fb372
 
IA-64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     05e305eedbdbd37d8b24e09a07a2e994
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.ia64.rpm     da83d846f15b05ff2b473982335db0f3
 
x86_64:
oprofile-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     b00dcb7346ee7cb0199107fa105c62cf
oprofile-devel-0.8.1-33.x86_64.rpm     cb5b39ae217073f3d475d5f8cb47b54a
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Keywords

AMD, family10, IBM, oprofile, power


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