1This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent 2low-overhead system-wide profiler. 3 4You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. 5 6Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ 7 8oprofile was written by John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> 9and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>. 10 11Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. 12 13Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for 14the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. 15 16Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC 17driver and the initial ia64 driver. 18 19Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the 20oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. 21 22Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. 23 24Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port. 25 26Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. 27 28Building 29-------- 30 31Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or 32http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. 33 34Quick start : 35 36(If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You 37can specify a different version, e.g. 38ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) 39 402.4 kernels 41 42 ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source 43 442.6 kernels 45 46 ./configure --with-kernel-support 47