Re: linux-next requirements

[Nick Bowler]

On 08:23 Sun 28 Feb     , Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> 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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