Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf, tools: Add perf download to download event files v4

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:16:00PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Add a downloader to automatically download the right
> files from a download site.
> 
> This is implemented as a script calling wget, similar to
> perf archive. The perf driver automatically calls the right
> binary. The downloader is extensible, but currently only
> implements an Intel event download.  It would be straightforward
> to add other sites too for other vendors.
> 
> The downloaded event files are put into ~/.cache/pmu-events, where the
> builtin event parser in util/* can find them automatically.

SNIP

>  	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)Documentation $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) clean
> diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-download.sh b/tools/perf/perf-download.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..b6e4299
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/perf-download.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
> +#!/bin/bash
> +# download event files for current cpu for perf
> +
> +WGETOPT=${WGETOPT:---no-verbose --timeout 5}
> +
> +set -e
> +
> +if ! type wget > /dev/null ; then
> +	echo "please install wget"

I guess the other alternative is curl.. could u check for this one as well?

jirka