oprofile reference for Linux/PPC

Originally committed as revision 5470 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg_powerpc_performance_evaluation_howto.txt b/doc/ffmpeg_powerpc_performance_evaluation_howto.txt
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--- a/doc/ffmpeg_powerpc_performance_evaluation_howto.txt
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg_powerpc_performance_evaluation_howto.txt
@@ -156,8 +156,13 @@ documented by Apple, it's not my subject.
 
 V) Enabling the PMC on Linux
 
-I don't know how to do it, sorry :-) Any idea very much welcome.
+On linux you may use oprofile from http://oprofile.sf.net, depending on the
+version and the cpu you may need to apply a patch[1] to access a set of the
+possibile counters from the userspace application. You can always define them
+using the kernel interface /dev/oprofile/* .
+
+[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/development/oprofile-g4-20060423.patch
 
 --
-Romain Dolbeau
-<romain@dolbeau.org>
+Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
+Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>