I'm no hardware nut, but..
I'm no hardware nut, but..
Posted Oct 2, 2008 21:51 UTC (Thu) by fuhchee (guest, #40059)In reply to: I'm no hardware nut, but.. by Oddscurity
Parent article: Low-level tracing plumbing
> Not only that, but it'll possibly be just the packing. Unpacking and
> collating data can be done in userspace, and possibly offline after enough
> trace data's been collected.
> collating data can be done in userspace, and possibly offline after enough
> trace data's been collected.
OTOH, Linus wanted to people to be able to use this tracing stuff with
just a cat/grep, which seems to eschew *requiring* special userspace tools
for unpacking.
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