[arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 15:17, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
<arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/14/21 3:07 PM, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> > I just updated the server to also accept x86_64 feature levels, ARM
> > and even i686. There is a new version of pkgstats (>= 3.1.0; currently
> > in [testing]) which is able to detect feature levels. ARM support is
> > pretty early, but x86_64 should be fine (using Intel's cpuid library).
> >
> > If you like to check what gets detected on your system run:
> >     $ pkgstats submit --dump-json | head
> > system.architecture is your CPU and os.architecture should be the same
> > as "uname -m"
> >
> > Let me know if this does work for you and especially if it does not.
> > Using Qemu for testing is quite limited and I lack old, new and AMD
> > CPUs.
> >
> > An API and UI to analyze these data will follow in the future. (I
> > guess we need to wait a few weeks to see some valid results)
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> that sounds wonderful, thanks for the work, this will be nice data points :)
>
> Did you see my previous mail? It would be amazing if you can consider
> growing this side-project into something official in terms of being
> available on http://pkgstats.archlinux.org/
>
> I think this is really a great idea and project that we should advocate
> in the official hosting namespace :)
>
> cheers and thanks,
> Levente
>

I second this and we've tried to touch on this in the past. I think
"officializing" pkgstats would be neat.

Cheers,
Sven