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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage" (www.phoronix.com)
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[โ€“] traceur201@piefed.social 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's bits, not bytes. And endianness is a huge consideration in systems programming. And it's basically Linus' whole role at this point to enforce extreme consistency and standards since the project is so large with so many contributors

[โ€“] wizzim 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the explanation.

I totally forgot about the endianness.