"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Most machines are recent machines. > > This is a bold statement I would say. Any numbers to back it up?
You can do the math. Reasonable assumptions are ~10% growth rate in year-by-year units shipment (that's conservative, usually it is higher) and that most systems are only used for 4-5 years (on commercial servers it's typically 4 years, on privately used systems perhaps a bit more, laptops certainly less because they tend to break earlier). That is the average, of course there are systems which are used much longer (or much shorter), but I would expect them to be the minority. Also laptops are growing more and more compared to desktops (iirc the cross over of more laptops than desktops shipping happened recently) and if the assumption that they break earlier is true (it is definitely in my experience) so it's likely that the average system live time shrinks in the future. With that it's reasonably easy to show that most systems are recent, if you define recent as 1-3 years. The "ACPI is the standard validated mode of operation" window is more like 7-8 years by now. With that I would expect the systems with very poor ACPI implementation to be a small minority by now. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
