From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751536Ab0CAP1f (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:27:35 -0500 Received: from dsl-67-204-24-19.acanac.net ([67.204.24.19]:36857 "EHLO emergent.ellipticsemi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751154Ab0CAP1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:27:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:13:00 -0500 From: Nick Bowler To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Stephen Rothwell , 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 , Linus Subject: Re: linux-next requirements Message-ID: <20100301151300.GA14825@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Stephen Rothwell , 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 , Linus References: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <201002271323.14402.rjw@sisk.pl> <20100227124710.GA21164@elte.hu> <201002272007.43042.rjw@sisk.pl> <20100228072357.GB14205@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100228072357.GB14205@elte.hu> Organization: Elliptic Technologies Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08:23 Sun 28 Feb , Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Rafael J. Wysocki 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/)