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SubjectRe: [git pull] x86 fixes (NOPL issue)
Robert Hancock wrote:
>>
>> if so, should only test on VIA chips.
>
> The virtual CPUs are more of a problem. They can't be distinguished from
> the real CPU models they are emulating other than by actually testing.

Right, hence the first-principles test. In theory we could just execute
the test on ALL CPUs, but I have excluded family < 6 simply because
there is a (very) remote possibility one of them might have used that
opcode for something completely different.

-hpa


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