Investigate current developer tools

Registered by Michael Hope

Investigate the state of the art in developer tools and recommend future areas

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Michael Hope
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Michael Hope
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Ken Werner
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 11.05
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 11.05-final
Started by
Michael Hope
Completed by
Michael Hope

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Sprints

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Note that libunwind, perf, and oprofile now have their own blueprints.

michaelh1 deleted the 'tool n+1' lines as we've covered everything interesting.

[1] All areas look clean enough or low priority enough to defer to later cycles. Nothing from this list was picked up for 11.11

Estimate: 1-2m

(?)

Work Items

Work items:
Set focus: DONE
List commonly used and upcoming developer tools that match the focus: DONE
Investigate LTTng (https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/LTTng): DONE
Investigate DS-5: POSTPONED
Investigate vTune: POSTPONED
Investigate ftrace (https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/ftrace): DONE
Investigate the redhat crash utility (https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/crash-utility): DONE
Investigate latrace (https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/latrace): DONE
Document areas to work on[1]: DONE

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