diff --git a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
index e531dd504b6c..88b6358258d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst
@@ -91,9 +91,12 @@ Build your code
      fix any issues.
 
 2) Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
-   or some other build farm. Note that ppc64 is a good architecture for
-   cross-compilation checking because it tends to use ``unsigned long`` for
-   64-bit quantities.
+   or some other build farm.
+   Note that testing against architectures of different word sizes
+   (32- and 64-bit) and different endianness (big- and little-) is effective
+   in catching various portability issues due to false assumptions on
+   representable quantity range, data alignment, or endianness, among
+   others.
 
 3) Newly-added code has been compiled with ``gcc -W`` (use
    ``make KCFLAGS=-W``).  This will generate lots of noise, but is good