Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:40:21 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development - take 2 |
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On Wed, 16 November 2005 17:28:09 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:05 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > - "Programming the 80386" by Crawford and Gelsinger [Sybek] > > Maybe, but on the whole I suspect we'd do well if fewer people were > thinking about one particular legacy architecture when writing kernel > code. > > Newbie kernel hackers ought to be working on something SMP, big-endian > and 64-bit. Get into good habits right away.
And make their on-medium format the opposite from their hardware. It is so much nicer if a missing conversion here and there _does_ cause problems.
Jörn
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