From 3f46f8c2a94567956a1a722da6d13de84726c344 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:38:33 -0400 Subject: PR4186 cont'd: clarify ARCH naming in NEWS too --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7843979..a494907a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ configured/built kernel tree and -a its architecture (kbuild ARCH=...). Systemtap will infer -p4. +- The systemtap notion of "architecture" now matches the kernel's, rather + than that of "uname -m". This means that 32-bit i386 family are all + known as "i386" rather than "i386" or "i686"; "ppc64" as "powerpc"; + "s390x" as "s390", and so on. This is consistent between the new + "-a ARCH" flag and the script-level %( arch ... %) conditional. + - It is now possible to define multiple probe aliases with the same name. A probe will expand to all matching aliases. probe foo = bar { } -- cgit