Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:07:15 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: AMD Geode NOPL emulation for kernel 2.6.36-rc2 |
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> And nobody has answered what happens when NOPLs are used to > synchronise with something else? Surely that can lead to subtle, hard > to debug breakage? Isn't that plain worse than refusing to run or > breaking out of execution?
NOPL for synchronisation - of user space. I'd say thats sufficiently unlikely not to care. It's still an improvement on crashing.
The other point you make is a good one but it's not clear that all the proprietary apps for example will get recompiled, so to many users its not a solution. Similarly the long term stable distros aren't going to recompile everything and invalidate all their test data, so I doubt that things like Centos will.
Alan
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