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On Friday 25 January 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 19:34:46 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > My attitude is: CPU's that do unaligned accesses right are the *good* 
> > CPU's. We should encourage them, and put the onus of being crap on the 
> > ones that are crap, rather than penalizing the ones that aren't.
> 
> I absolutely agree. But as this can get fixed with _no_ performance loss
> at all inside of the firmware (and who if not intel can change stuff
> in their firmware?), I think this warning is in fact valid.

Well, you forgot the point that maybe it is not that simple to get such
a seemingly simple change into the firmware for a long list of reasons.
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