On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:11:20PM +0100, Martin Guy wrote: > Hi > 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.
I do not think it would be very fair, because low-end systems are less likely to run popularity-contest than more recent systems, so the fact that none of them are running popularity-contest would not imply that there are none. > 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. This issue has been discussed in the past. I have no objection for popcon to report sub-architecture and/or CPU *provided* there is a canonical/official way to retrieve this information from a Debian system (e.g. an hypothetical dpkg --print-subarchitecture) that work consistently on linux/kfreebsd/hurd. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- 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/20100720101246.gc30...@yellowpig
