A.7. Changes in OProfile

Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.1 is distributed with OProfile 0.9.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version. Below is a comprehensive list of new features in this release.

A.7.1. Changes Since Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0

The following features have been added since the release of OProfile included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0:
  • OProfile now supports the Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, Intel Xeon Processor E3, Intel Pentium, and Intel Celeron processors formerly code-named Haswell.
  • Users can now use named unit masks for Intel processors.