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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:34:12 +0000
Subject: Re: Please requeue atlas3
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>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:51:03 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:

  Matthew> I think the only ISA addition so far is BranchLong which
  Matthew> gets emulated by the kernel.  I hear murmurings of
  Matthew> additional instructions in future processors, but let's
  Matthew> cross that bridge when there's silicon to be had.

There is also the 16-byte-atomic-ops extension.  The Ski simulator has
been supporting that for some time, so in that sense it exists
already:

 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep features
 features   : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops

;-)

	--david