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Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:

> could I ask what is the status of this? There were some patches
> posted, but I think nothing final?

I do not think you meant to address your inquiry to me, but I think these
patches tried out some ideas, got issues discovered in them and then got
abandoned before resulting in a working code that is ready for testing.

I wish there were fewer such series, but it happens (see "Stalled" section
in What's cooking).