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From some IRC chats with Thomaas and Andy, I think it's safe to say that they're not comfortable blindly enabling even our "simple features". I think we're going to need at least some additional architecture to get us to a point where everyone will be comfortable. For instance, AMX might be "simple", but there are really only kludgy ways to get it back to the init state. Plus, it's *not* simple in that state left in the registers can have permanent (as long as the state remains) power and performance impact. Also, we probably need to expand the "simple" architecture documentation a bit. For instance, we need to promise that things like pkeys which can cause kernel exceptions will never be enumerated as "simple".