[PATCH] taskset: support more than 64 cores

[Isaac Dunham]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:35:46PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:27:12PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > > Show me one typical embedded system that is high-volume and has more than
> > > 64 cores. Even the full-fledged iphone tablets are not there and even if
> > > they were, they would use complete utils rather than chopped most
> > probably
> > > anyhow. To me, this feature does not seem to fit busybox's goal unless
> > > Apple, Samsung, etc were not notified about some recent boom in the
> > > semiconductor industry.
> >
> > Embedded != consumer electronics.
> >
> 
> Not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, but you wrote embedded
> systems _word-by-word_, and I asked for one typical example with more than
> 64 cores where busybox is so much needed.

I'm pretty sure that Matthieu (the patch author) just said that 6wind (his company)
uses or builds the sort of hardware where this is relevant.

HTH,
Isaac