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SubjectRe: Porting Linux to a new architecture
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In article <199603232334.AAA24147@irs.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>Our research group is currently considering porting the Linux kernel
>to a new architecture, and we're about to document the architecture-
>specific interfaces an architecture support is supposed to implement.
>
>- Is there any good reason not to start with linux-1.2.13?

Well, I can at least answer this one: the latest Linux kernels
have support for lots of different architectures, alpha, i386,
mips, powerpc, and sparc. The seperation between processor/machine
dependant and indepenant parts is much better than in 1.2.13.
So I think it would be easier to start with the latest Linux kernels.
Besides, we'll soon see 1.4 and 2.0 and then nobody will use 1.2.13
anymore and you'll be basing your work on obsolete code.

Mike.
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