Can the OP run a clean Linux Environment on his computer from a DVD and then use your AMD Toolkit or would he need to install Linux on his hard drive with full drivers for the AMD Toolkit to work correctly?
I am not familiar with IBS which is why I am asking all these questions. I understand now that IBS is not a software but a hardware feature. I also understand now that your AMD Toolkit is software to access the IBS feature in CPUs that have it running under a Linux environment and not under Windows environment.
So basically the OP is out of luck. He did mention that he is using uProf but it is asking to enable IBS in BIOS which he couldn't find. Can Windows Toolkit access the IBS Feature or does WIndows Toolkit show something totally different than what the OP is asking?
As you can tell I am not familiar at all with IBS. So excuse me for giving incorrect information in my earlier post. It was not intentional and I was just going by the information I was able to gather on the subject. But it is good this occurred because now I know what IBS is and would know how to respond to it in the future.
Thanks for correcting my earlier post. You comment was quite useful to me and to the OP.
Hi elstaci
I apologize if my replies above seemed somewhat brusque. I appreciate your feedback and the posts you've made trying to help answer the OP's question. The only reason I'm trying to be very specific in my posts is that I suspect at some point in the future someone will find these posts while trying to fix one of their own problems, so I want to make sure to correct any small mistakes that may confuse this hypothetical future person.
To answer your question: yes, the OP could do a LiveCD/LiveDVD/LiveUSB Linux boot and test out the AMD IBS Toolkit that you linked above. I do this sometimes when I need to test backwards compatibility of the toolkit with older Linux kernel versions.
Unfortunately, I suspect that this would not meet the OP's needs. They are probably trying to analyze a particular application of interest within Windows, so having IBS enabled on a temporary Linux installation, while useful to see that IBS works, won't help them analyze their software.
You're right, if the OP's system or motherboard vendor does not make IBS Enable available as a BIOS option, there's unfortunately not a lot tat can be done. The AMD IBS Toolkit was built for my own personal needs inside AMD and was released publicly to help academics and other researchers. It's not an officially supported product, so we will not be porting it to run on Windows in the foreseeable future. AMD's official mechanism for accessing IBS is through tools like uProf, but on "Zen"-based processors, these official tools require the BIOS to enable IBS.
