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adam.keys@engr.smu.edu said:
> I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/
> compiling on, and then older machine(s) for testing. This way I
> would not risk losing data if I oops or somesuch.

With journalling filesystems you needn't worry _too_ much about losing
data; depending of course on what you're hacking on. Having two separate
boxen for development and testing is mostly valuable because you can keep
working when you break it - it doesn't take your entire desktop environment
down with it.


adam.keys@engr.smu.edu said:
> Which brings me to the final question. Is there any reason to choose
> architecture A over architecture B for any reason besides
> arch-specific development in the kernel or for device drivers?

If you're developing device drivers and have the choice, pick something
esoteric to enforce good behaviour. Something which does out-of-order
stores, has non-cache-coherent DMA, is big-endian and preferably 64-bit. I
think both mips64 and sparc64 boards can meet all those criteria - if not,
get as close as you can.

--
dwmw2


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