To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: perfctr-2.7.16 released

Version 2.7.16 of perfctr, the Linux performance monitoring
counters kernel extension, is now available at the usual
place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/2.7/

Version 2.7.16, 2005-04-09
- In user-visible mmap()ed state, counter start values are now
  64-bit fields (values are still 32 bits however). Moved the
  virtual-to-physical counter mapping out of the user-visible
  mmap()ed state; the library now maintains that mapping.
- On ppc32/ppc64, the mmap()ed state now includes a software
  counter which the low-level driver increments at each sampling
  operation. Unfortunately the PPC timebase has too low frequency
  for it to be a reliable context-switch indicator for user-space.
- Makefile tweaks for cross-compilation and 'mrproper'.
- Removed references to the obsolete /dev/perfctr special file
  in INSTALL and perfctr.spec.

/Mikael Pettersson