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    SubjectRe: [RFC] HOWTO do Linux kernel development - take 2
    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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