linux-kernel - Re: linux-next requirements

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Message-ID: <20100301151300.GA14825@emergent.ellipticsemi.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:13:00 -0500
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, roland@...hat.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hjl.tools@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next requirements

On 08:23 Sun 28 Feb     , Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> 
> > > In fact those rare ways of building and booting the kernel i mentioned are 
> > > probably used _more_ than half of the architectures that linux-next 
> > > build-tests ...
> > 
> > I don't know and you don't know either.  That's just pure speculation and 
> > therefore meaningless.
> 
> We know various arch (and hardware) usage stats, such as:
> 
>   http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html
> 
> Today's stats, done amongst users who are willing to opt in to the Smolt 
> daemon:
> 
>        x86: 99.7%
>    powerpc: 0.3%
> 
> x86 used to be 99.5 a year ago, so the world has become even more x86-centric.

This only tells us that _smolt users_ have become even more x86-centric.
As a self-selected sample, it is very likely a poor representative of
"the world" and any such extrapolation is indeed "pure speculation".

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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