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Re: Supported architectures


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



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