linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw

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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:57:10 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	yinghai@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from
 e820.c to fw_memmap.c

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Does this mean you disagree with that? (I think it's pretty factual, last i 
> checked the usage stats of devel kernels was somewhere around 99.7%.)

Is that number obtained from Fedora downloads or something?  I
wouldn't be surprised if desktop usage of bleeding-edge kernels is
near 100%, since basically all desktop machines are x86 these days.
I think that number would be biased against server and embedded
machines, but without knowing exactly what you're counting it's hard
to say.

In any case, I don't think the number of machines is particularly
relevant.  Linux runs on maybe 1% of all desktop machines in the
world, according to numbers I've seen, but that doesn't make it
irrelevant or not worth working on.

Paul.
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