hwpmc support for haswell

[hiren panchasara]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 AM, hiren panchasara
> <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've prepared a patch to add core and uncore events support for
>> haswell processor.
>> I do not have the hardware to test this. It applies cleanly and
>> compiles fine though.
>>
>> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/patches/hwpmc_hw.txt
>>
>> This is initial version of patch and manpage is still missing. I will
>> add it in a few days.
>>
>> Any help in testing is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hiren
>
> It seems Intel won't release this before June (at least to my knowledge).
> I would claim it'll be difficult to real test this before that date
> unless someone has prerelease hardware.

Indeed. I've posted it here just to let larger audience know and avoid
possible duplicate work.

We will wait till we get the hardware to test with.

Thanks,
Hiren
>
> Thanks
>
> Davide