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From: Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
To: Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugeniy.meshcheryakov@googlemail.com>,
	        systemtap@sources.redhat.com, guanglei@cn.ibm.com,
	ananth@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Supported architectures
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163448801.20684.5.camel@dragon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4558CDC1.90205@us.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:55 -0800, Vara Prasad wrote:

> >Is it possible to use systemtap
> >on 64-bit ppc system with 32-bit userspace (including stap, staprun,
> >lket-b2a ...)? 
> >
> I believe one should able to run 32bit user space tools although kernel 
> has support only for 64bit PPC. Guanglei can you confirm if b2a tool 
> works fine if built in 32 bit mode? Ananth/Amit have we tested 32bit 
> user space tools support for systemtap?

stap can and is currently built 32 bit on ppc64. I recently changed
staprun so it is compiled in 64-bit mode. I did this to simplify the
data exchange between staprun and the kernel where addresses and
structures are passed from userspace to the kernel.

Martin


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-13 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-12  1:13 Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
2006-11-13 17:14 ` David Wilder
2006-11-13 20:13 ` Vara Prasad
2006-11-13 23:08   ` Martin Hunt [this message]
2006-11-14  2:17   ` Li Guanglei

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