Quote of the week

[Posted October 1, 2025 by corbet]

The mainline kernel is for mainline development. Not for random experiments that make the world a worse place.
And yes, we're open source, and that very much means that anybody is more than welcome to try to prove me wrong.
If it turns out that [big-endian] RISC-V becomes a real thing that is relevant and actually finds a place in the RISC-V ecosystem, then _of_course_ we should support it at that point in the mainline kernel.
But I really do think that it actually makes RISC-V only worse, and that we should *not* actively help the fragmentation.

— Linus Torvalds

Make the right way the easy way

Posted Oct 2, 2025 1:51 UTC (Thu) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424) [Link]

> If you want people to do something the right way, you must make the right way the easy way.
> - Traditional saying.

If you don't want people to do something the wrong way, you can make the wrong way the hard way.
- Corollary.

ISA designer checklist

Posted Oct 2, 2025 2:32 UTC (Thu) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

OK, this rant was just wonderful.

It belongs somewhere in that .txt file with opcodes. Or perhaps we need a "ISA designer checklist" alongside the famous "Programming Language Checklist".