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x86: completely disable NOPL on 32 bits
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:29:40 +0000 (09:29 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:33:57 +0000 (09:33 -0700)
commitba0593bf553c450a03dbc5f8c1f0ff58b778a0c8
tree027517cfd97e0ddc3513273a1dcb92d00db38234tree | snapshot
parent5132895f14a57607152f7865dc862fb076ce2585commit | diff
x86: completely disable NOPL on 32 bits

Completely disable NOPL on 32 bits.  It turns out that Microsoft
Virtual PC is so broken it can't even reliably *fail* in the presence
of NOPL.

This leaves the infrastructure in place but disables it
unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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