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Ralf Baechle wrote:

> I'm curious, did you actually manage to trigger this one?  The time between
> the instructions should be fairly long but then again the 34K has been
> good for a few surprises!

Yes... It actually showed up in 74k silicon at particular clock 
frequencies. The dual issue pipeline does make it susceptible to these 
"theoretical" problems ;)

Chris

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