HWPMC on SkyLake

[Eric van Gyzen]

On 02/09/2017 14:53, Derrick McKee wrote:
> I would like to use hwpmc on my desktop with a SkyLake processor.  However,
> I get an 'hwpc_core: unknown PMC architecture: 4' error whenever I run
> kldload hwpmc command.  There was a small thread about this error on the
> current mailing list last year[1], but I can't find any resolution about
> this.  Is there any new information?
> 
> [1]
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2016-June/061863.html
> 
> Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
> 
> 
>    1. hwpc_core: unknown PMC architecture: 4
>    2. hwpmc: SOFT/16/64/0x67<INT,USR,SYS,REA,WRI>
> 

This appears to be fixed by r311224 just last month:

	https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=311224

	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9036

It was merged to stable/11 by r311960.  I don't see a merge to stable/10.

Cheers,

Eric