Re: Supported architectures

[Li Guanglei <guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com>]

Vara Prasad wrote:
> Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Currently Debian package for systemtap builds on all release
> > architectures, but I think it is not useful on some of them. So, I am
> > going to drop support of those architectures.
> >
> > I cannot find list of supported architectures in systemtap's source or
> > website, so I'll try to guess.
> >  
> O.K, good feedback we will try to add a section on the web site to 
> indicate supported architectures, thanks.
>
> > src/runtime contains the following files:
> > stack-x86_64.c
> > stack-ia64.c
> > stack-ppc64.c
> > stack-s390.c
> >  
> We also support regular 32bit x86.
>
> > Are that all of supported architectures?
> Do you have interest for any other architectures support?
>
> > 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?

lket-b2a will be compiled as 32-bit for 64-bit PPC. I tried to compile 
it in 64-bit mode, and it could work without mysql support. I will 
install a 64-bit mysql-devel package later to check that if it could 
work in 64-bit mode.
s390 requires all tools to be 64-bit mode, right?


- Guanglei