perf package

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:15:10PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This might mean some kind of pain for wrong-dominant multilib distros,
> but those people can pummel us later.  Or maybe ppc32-built perf can
> talk to a ppc64 kernel OK, hell if I know.
> 

It certainly should be able to. I've been carefully watching the perf
interface (parisc and all that) and it is quite 64-bit clean.

That said, it would be cool if someone would test it... I suppose I
could update my g5.

--Kyle