On 2020-08-12 02:08, Stuart Henderson wrote:
The only proxy we have for "what is really used" is dmesg submissions. Since 6.7 release: amd64 62 i386 5 arm64 3 macppc 2 octeon 1 Based on this there isn't a great case for adding any more.
I didn't realize you guys used dmesg@ as a popularity gauge, I thought it was just for sending dmesgs for interesting/new hardware. I figured with something like Edgerouters with their standardized hardware that repeat dmesgs would just serve to irritate the devs. I personally administer more OpenBSD 6.x machines than are on that list you sent. I can start hammering dmesg@, but then I'm gonna skew your stats and you're gonna think that your userbase consists of a bunch of autists that unironically run macppc, sparc64 and octeon in production everywhere. In the small Canadian town I live in, I've got a big chunk of it running on OpenBSD. I've got a bunch of old 90's / 2000's i386 stuff too, so I can send dmesgs in for that too, the reason I didn't is I figured the hardware was already 'been there, done that'.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I can afford to donate 2 octeon machines to any devs that are interested (including shipping world wide; any devs reading: please contact me if you're interested), and am also happy to help out with octeon stuff in any way I can. Obviously you guys aren't going to trust me to do anything syspatch related as I'm not a dev, but I'd at least like it to be known that there are people who care about the octeon port and who are willing make an effort for it.
Regards, Jordan
