Originally written for Intel's i386 processor, very early in its history, the Linux Kernel was re-coded for easy portability. It had been re-written once for the Motorola 68K; the prospect of tedious re-writes for each possible architecture prompted Torvalds to aim for a modular code base which could be ported to different processor architectures with a minimum possible effort.

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  • Originally written for Intel's i386 processor, very early in its history, the Linux Kernel was re-coded for easy portability. It had been re-written once for the Motorola 68K; the prospect of tedious re-writes for each possible architecture prompted Torvalds to aim for a modular code base which could be ported to different processor architectures with a minimum possible effort. Architecture specific folders in the kernel source address the particular details of each supported processor, while all benefit by sharing the identical bulk of the kernel code. Additional modularity was achieved by kernel 2.0 with dynamically loadable modules. (en)
  • Originalmente escrito para procesadores Intel i386, el núcleo Linux fue recodificado para facilitar la portabilidad de éste. Habiendo sido reescrito una vez para la arquitectura Motorola 68K, la perspectiva de las tediosas reescrituras para cada arquitectura posible, incitada por Linus Torvalds, se enfocaba en poseer una base de código modular que pudiese ser portada hacia diferentes arquitecturas con un mínimo de esfuerzo. Carpetas específicas de arquitectura en las fuentes del núcleo, se dirigen a detalles particulares de cada procesador soportado, mientras todas las ventajas radican el en hecho de compartir un idéntico código de núcleo. La modularidad adicional fue alcanzada por el núcleo 2.0 con módulos dinámicamente cargables. (es)
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  • Originally written for Intel's i386 processor, very early in its history, the Linux Kernel was re-coded for easy portability. It had been re-written once for the Motorola 68K; the prospect of tedious re-writes for each possible architecture prompted Torvalds to aim for a modular code base which could be ported to different processor architectures with a minimum possible effort. (en)
  • Originalmente escrito para procesadores Intel i386, el núcleo Linux fue recodificado para facilitar la portabilidad de éste. (es)
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  • Linux kernel portability and supported architectures (en)
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