INSTALLATION
============

In this directory you will find some files to setup
a measurement environment.


1. Kernel patch
---------------

+ Files named along following pattern are
linux kernel patches:

linux-$LINUXREV$-tptimer_$TIMERREV$.patch

They can be applied to a linux kernel source
tree by issuing 'patch -p1 < file' within
your linux source directory.


2. Debian package
-----------------

+ Files named along following pattern are
debien kernel packages:

kernel-image-$LINUXREV$.tp+timer_$TIMERREV$_i386.deb

Just download and type 'dpkg -i file' to install it.
These packages contain a kernel binary built for
IA32 architecture.

$LINUXREV$ is replaced by the linux kernel version
the patch was made for.

$TIMERREV$ is replaced by the latest revision number
of our timer code.


3. Packet generator
-------------------

Unzip and untar pacgen.tar.bz2 and run make. Usage
instructions on the applications 'client' and 'server'
can be obtained by calling them without any arguments.


4. Development system
---------------------

You can also find a rather big harddisk image
made with partimage that includes a full
setup of our development environment. Download it
and restore the image to an empty partition
which is at least 4GB.

For development and testing we used an UML
kernel, for measurement we installed the software
on dedicated systems by using the debian packet
management tools.