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@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ RTLA depends on the following libraries and tools:
- libtraceevent
- libcpupower (optional, for --deepest-idle-state)
+For BPF sample collection support, the following extra dependencies are
+required:
+
+ - libbpf 1.0.0 or later
+ - bpftool with skeleton support
+ - clang with BPF CO-RE support
+
It also depends on python3-docutils to compile man pages.
For development, we suggest the following steps for compiling rtla: