To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: perfctr-2.6.37 released Version 2.6.37 of perfctr, the Linux performance monitoring counters kernel extension, is now available at the usual place: http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/2.6/ Version 2.6.37, 2008-11-30 - Preliminary support for Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) processors (family 6 model 26). They are currently treated like Core 2s but with four general-purpose counters, and with different events and a new symbolic CPU type. The AnyThread evntsel flag and "uncore" event monitoring are not yet supported. - Updated x86 driver to recognise Xeon 7400 (family 6 model 29) as a member of the Core 2 family. - Extended x86 driver's CPU initialisation on Intel Core 2 and newer CPUs to work around vtune leaving the performance monitor unit in a "very" disabled state. Thanks to Mark Krentel for reporting the problem and for facilitating tests that allowed the cause of the problem to be identified. - Updated kernel support: 2.6.28-rc6, 2.6.18-120.el5 (RHEL5.3 beta), 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 (RHEL5), 2.6.9-78.0.8.EL (RHEL4). / Mikael Pettersson