Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce the amount of iron, no?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>wrote: > >Through the history of openbsd there have been architectures in which > more bugs have been found and some in which fewer bugs have appeared. > > That is not true. > > >Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can be matched to the > power-on-time for the machines for that architecture. > > Maybe. Probably need them on to prove or disprove the point. > > >For example, if 1% of the total number of bugs in the history of openbsd > have appeared on architecture x, then it's likely that it will continue to > be so, then all the machines for that architecture should be powered on > just 1% of the time. > > Another great advantage here is that all the pesky developers who love > those machines will go away, and we'll only need to run on the best > architectures (which of course, are big endian). > > >Then perform that analysis on all architectures to make a more better use > of energy. And that's it. > > It's so simple. Why didn't I think of it.
