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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/) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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