On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:11:20PM +0100, Martin Guy wrote: > I'm wondering if its feasible to extend popcon to give statistics > for the CPU architecture in use. Certainly for the ARM port this would > be useful as there are often discussions of which ARM instruction set > to support as a baseline. > In i386 world, this would be like saying "does anyone really run > Debian on a 486 any more?", to know when it is feasible to increase > the minimum CPU requirements to the benefit of everyone with more > recent processors.
Why yes I do run Debian on a 486 (with 48MB of ram though). :) > I would imagine some people would be concerned about > anonimity/security issues implied by identifying people's specific > CPUs. In our case, the supported instruction set, and maybe whether it > has an FPU, is the interesting statistic, not so much the specific > silicon in use. > > I'm not subscribed to this list; please Cc replies -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100719162909.gd2...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
