[dtrace-discuss] DTrace on AIX

[James Dickens]

On 8/1/06, Bryan Cantrill <bmc at eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:06:44PM -0700, George Gluck wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a DTrace port to AIX?
>
> There is no DTrace port to AIX, and to the best of my knowledge none is
> being considered.  Because AIX runs only on POWER/PowerPC, the port would be
> substantial:  the techniques used by FBT, SDT, USDT and the pid provider
> would all have to be developed from scratch.  (These providers all have
> intimate knowledge of the underlying instruction set architecture.)
> Still, the obstacles are only technical:  there is nothing in the license
> to prevent such a port.  Should you encounter anyone from IBM who would
> like to scope out a port, feel free to put them in contact with us;
> we're happy to lend our time and expertise to ports to other operating
> systems and architectures...
>
given IBM's a major contributor to the systemtap project, I don't see
them porting DTrace. They really do think that they are going to make
systemtap into something as usable as dtrace.

James Dickens
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