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On 01/21/16 11:50, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Right... we already do that.
> 
> I don't even think you need to initialize any tables.  At least on i386,
> we have to do this in assembly code.  However, it is just a simple table
> walk.  :)
> 

It might make more sense to make subarch its own table, though, although
I haven't looked at your code in enough detail to say.

	-hpa