On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Richard Lowe wrote:
none of the things in that bug affect your ability to use the instructions.
Most are actually very minor.
Are you sure? This is only important issue that I see:
"kernel/context switch support to save/restore the new registers"
Without this it seems that the program would be corrupted as soon as
there is a context switch while AVX instructions are in use.
Otherwise, I agree that a program can just go ahead and use the
instructions.
Bob
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