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Subject: Re: [PATCH] change name of rep_nop
To: davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:33:43 +0100 (BST)
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> How do you propose to do this without turning setup.c and friends
> into a #ifdef nightmare ? setup_intel.c, setup_amd.c etc ??

By leaving well alone. That is all init and non runtime overhead. Things
like lock addl $0, (%esp) all through the code are not.
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