From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:33 +0200 > Eventually you'll port the entire assembler into macros, as > instructions are introduced more frequently that people upgrade their > assemblers. Maybe we should disable the new features and warn people > (and distros) to upgrade their tools instead. I totally and completely disagree. It would have taken more than a year to get Niagara cpu support out to people if I had done what you are suggesting. And here we're talking about one instruction in one specialized case in a very piece of crypto module assembler. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
