From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.c Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:57:10 +1100 Message-ID: <20100322215710.GB11526@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <4BA6EA62.1030603@kernel.org> <20100321.210023.209981130.davem@davemloft.net> <4BA6F1F6.3070102@kernel.org> <20100321.213350.176660494.davem@davemloft.net> <20100322092809.GA20607@elte.hu> <1269290862.8599.77.camel@pasglop> <20100322205703.GA25254@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:51142 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756490Ab0CVV5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:57:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100322205703.GA25254@elte.hu> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , yinghai@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Does this mean you disagree with that? (I think it's pretty factual, last i > checked the usage stats of devel kernels was somewhere around 99.7%.) Is that number obtained from Fedora downloads or something? I wouldn't be surprised if desktop usage of bleeding-edge kernels is near 100%, since basically all desktop machines are x86 these days. I think that number would be biased against server and embedded machines, but without knowing exactly what you're counting it's hard to say. In any case, I don't think the number of machines is particularly relevant. Linux runs on maybe 1% of all desktop machines in the world, according to numbers I've seen, but that doesn't make it irrelevant or not worth working on. Paul.