[dtrace-discuss] DTrace on AIX

[Bryan Cantrill]

> It will be interesting to see how much PowerPC work has been done by  
> Apple.

Yes, it's great news from Apple today.  I discuss what Apple's done here:

  http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=dtrace_on_mac_os_x

They've done FBT for PowerPC, but I don't think they have intention of
doing the pid or SDT providers for PowerPC (those look to be x86 only on
Mac OS X for the immediate future) -- but they'll presumably be able to
speak to that directly here.  And yes, the presence of FBT on PowerPC should
make the AIX port that much easier -- so how about it, IBM? ;)

Anyway, in case it needs to be said:  Apple's announcement today is a huge
win for DTrace users, as it (ultimately) expands our community to Apple's
footprint of 19 million users.  Welcome, dogcows! 

	- Bryan

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Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development.       http://blogs.sun.com/bmc