Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[William Lee Irwin III]

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
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