On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > It would devastate the performance of some binaries. I think this is what the deprecation is about. ;-) > As an intellectual challenge, how far can you strip down a MIPS > implementation and emulate removed instructions in the kernel ;-) Well, going back to MIPS I is certainly achievable (OK, we could keep ll/sc for the sake of sanity) and then perhaps a little bit further. After all, all of the ALU ops can be done with the NOR op only. ;-) Maciej
