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    SubjectRe: AMD Geode NOPL emulation for kernel 2.6.36-rc2
    > 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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