Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:40:21 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
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.

J?rn

-- 
Correctness comes second.
Features come third.
Performance comes last.
Maintainability is needed for all of them.
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