Jordan Geoghegan([email protected]) on 2020.08.12 10:32:21 -0700: > > > 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
s/popularity/usage/ > 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 In a way, you also skew the stats if you dont send dmesgs. And "you" means everyone. Do it once every 6 months (for every release) i'd say. > 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'. If the dmesgs dont show that certain hardware is still used, the drivers for it will get deleted eventually. Another reason to show what you use. > 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 > --
