To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: perfctr-2.6.6 released Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Version 2.6.6 of perfctr, the Linux performance monitoring counters driver, is now available at the usual place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/ Version 2.6.6, 2004-02-21 - Pentium-M has an undocumented local APIC quirk which can stop perfctr interrupt delivery. Added workaround to prevent this. - Fixed a bug in x86-64's perfctr interrupt entry code in 2.4 kernels. Luckily, the bug turned out to be harmless (a bogus "rip" value was retrieved, but never used by the higher-level interrupt handler). - Added support for Pentium 4 Model 3 processors, which have slight event set changes from earlier models. - Updated kernel support: 2.6.3, 2.4.25, 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl (FC1), 2.4.20-30.9 (RH9), and 2.4.21-193 (SuSE). Removed support for some obsolete FC1 and RH update kernels. / Mikael Pettersson