From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
roland@redhat.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
hjl.tools@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next requirements
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:13:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100301151300.GA14825@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100228072357.GB14205@elte.hu>
On 08:23 Sun 28 Feb , Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.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/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 19:50 [patch v3 0/2] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - v3 Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 19:50 ` [patch v3 1/2] x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:18 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-12 3:45 ` [patch v3 1/2] " Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-11 19:51 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:19 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-22 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 9:33 ` linux-next requiements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET) Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 10:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 11:47 ` linux-next requirements " Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-22 23:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 20:20 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-23 22:54 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-23 19:52 ` Al Viro
2010-02-23 19:57 ` Al Viro
2010-02-24 7:25 ` linux-next requirements Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-27 1:53 ` Grant Likely
2010-02-27 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 9:09 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-02-27 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 12:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 12:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 19:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 21:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 22:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 12:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 7:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 8:19 ` Al Viro
2010-02-28 8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 10:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:13 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2010-03-03 21:53 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-04 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-04 1:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 2:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 18:37 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 18:36 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] parisc: Disable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK tip-bot for Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 3:56 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 15:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100301151300.GA14825@emergent.ellipticsemi.com \
--to=nbowler@elliptictech.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=hjl.tools@gmail.com \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=rjw@sisk.pl \
--cc=roland@redhat.com \
--cc=sfr@canb.auug.org.au \
--cc=suresh.b.siddha@intel.com \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®