Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263162AbUJ2Rxj (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:53:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263438AbUJ2Rxg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:53:36 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:27283 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263162AbUJ2RuM (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:50:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:49:51 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "michael@optusnet.com.au" , "'linux-kernel'" , Massimo Cetra , Ed Tomlinson , "Marcos D. Marado Torres" , John Richard Moser , Alan Cox Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" Message-ID: <20041029174951.GC12934@holomorphy.com> References: <200410280907_MC3-1-8D5A-FF57@compuserve.com> <20041028150329.GK12934@holomorphy.com> <4182436B.20600@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4182436B.20600@tmr.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 28 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> users with anything but the crappiest x86 s**tboxen and a tiny subset >> of all drivers (arjan's 20) are hopelessly outnumbered. On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:19:39AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sorry, i386 is really a pool of Pentium, Athlon, and Opteron chips, with > a witches brew of HT, 64bit extensions to 32 bit chips, and the like. > Connected by a constantly changing set of Intel, SiS, VIA and other > shipsets, and getting storage from IDE and SATA drives. > Not to mention using a vast array of CD and DVD drives and several major > flavors of USB methods with minor variations of each, and driving their > consoles with at least a half-dozen popular video chipsets with drivers > of various shades of openness. > You don't even reach 99.99% with small-endian, there are more assorted > RISC chips in use than that. I guess you're safe with twos complement > arithmetic, although I cringed at Linus' recent "find a power of two" > code which depends on it. Diversity, thy name is Linux! Feel free to compile real statistics on in-the-field Linux code use. I'll go with my handwavy assessment until I see such. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/