Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:23:02 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>, Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>,
        Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: Make Power7 events available for perf
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:52:18PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > I don't think it even needs libpfm4, just some csv files in tools/perf
> > would do the trick.
> 
> Right; I think Stephane and Jiri are in favour of creating a 'new' 
> project that includes just the event definitions in a plain text format 
> and a little library with parser to be used by all interested parties.

I'd be fine with that if it's stuck somewhere into tools/lib/ or so.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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