Re: [linuxtools-dev] Any plan to update oprofile plugin to use builtin X

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Maynard Johnson <maynardj@xxxxxxxxxx> [2011-01-18 12:09]:
> On 01/14/2011 2:33 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >>On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 11:21 -0600, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> >>>It seems to me that the above problems could be eliminated by
> >>>updating the
> >>>plugin to use oprofile's native XML output for sample data and event
> >>>listings.
> >>>Are there any plans for such an update?
> >>
> >>I haven't looked into the matter recently, but I know that within
> >>trunk
> >>(or at least on a branch) there were a set of changes to remove the
> >>native opxml component from the Eclipse Oprofile plugin. The fix
> >>basically involved replacing the opxml binary with uses of ophelp,
> >>opreport, and addr2line.
> >>
> >>I'm not sure if this has been included in a release though, as it may
> >>have needed some additional work, but there are plans to use the
> >>oprofile xml support.
> >
> >This hasn't been included in a release yet (it's only in trunk). Here is
> >the bug where we track this:
> >https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=273337
> No commitments yet, but I presume you wouldn't be averse to getting
> some help on this task.  :-)

Contributions are always welcome!  And they don't have to just be code.
We appreciate unit tests, bug reports, documentation, screencasts, blog
entries, usage reports, etc. :)

Andrew