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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:39:18PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> Say a mainline links with a math library that uses AMX without the
> knowledge of the mainline.

What is a "mainline"?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette