Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce
the amount of iron, no?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> >Through the history of openbsd there have been architectures in which
> more bugs have been found and some in which fewer bugs have appeared.
>
> That is not true.
>
> >Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can be matched to the
> power-on-time for the machines for that architecture.
>
> Maybe. Probably need them on to prove or disprove the point.
>
> >For example, if 1% of the total number of bugs in the history of openbsd
> have appeared on architecture x, then it's likely that it will continue to
> be so, then all the machines for that architecture should be powered on
> just 1% of the time.
>
> Another great advantage here is that all the pesky developers who love
> those machines will go away, and we'll only need to run on the best
> architectures (which of course, are big endian).
>
> >Then perform that analysis on all architectures to make a more better use
> of energy. And that's it.
>
> It's so simple. Why didn't I think of it.