On 08/31/2011 01:45 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:35:59AM +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : >> * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110831 10:56]: >>> Also, in the case of architectures targetted at embedded systems (I'm >>> thinking about mips and mipsel), what is important is that Debian >>> infrastructure supports the development of those architectures, but I >>> don't think that there's much to gain by being officially supported if >>> it's only used in production through derivatives that can provide the >>> official support. >> >> You are aware that there are mipsel netbooks? And arm tablets? > > In some previous discussion I was also pointed at 64-core mips workstations. > How many of these machines are running Debian ? > > I do not think that we can consider ports equally. The arm platform and the > armel port have some clear success. According to popcon, the user community > of > Debian on armel is constantly growing, and is aproximately 1 % of our ‘PC’ > (i386 and amd64) user community. Also, other distributions, for instance > Ubuntu, increase their committment for this platform. In comparison, the > usrerbase of the mipsel port stagnates to 0.05 % of our PC userbase. If there > were many Debian users of mipsel netbooks and workstations, why would they not > use Popcon, as the Debian users of armel computers do ?
The mipsel port is used by the Lemote Notebooks/mini Desktops for example, which come pre-installed with Debian. Not sure if they have popcon enabled at all. And I guess mipsel is more a target for Embedian. No idea about usage statistics there, though. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e5e9631.5020...@bzed.de