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On 2016-06-21 09:42, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> 6. You have a significant lack of data regarding embedded systems, which is
>> one of the two biggest segments of Linux's market share.  You list no
>> results for any pre-ARMv6 systems (Linux still runs on and is regularly used
>> on ARMv4 CPU's, and it's worth also pointing out that the values on
>> the
>
> Feel free to contribute more test results.
>
> I mean... you can't expect every person who wants to improve something
> in linux to test on everything in the world... can you?
>
I was commenting less on the lack of results for such systems than on 
attempts to make statements about such systems based on a data-set that 
lacks information about such systems.