On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 08:01:28AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 6/17/25 07:44, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > I don't really see how this is that useful. That said, f a bug fix or > > feature used encls mnemonic, I'd had no problems with acking it. > > It's not _that_ useful. > > But old assemblers that we still want to use *NEVER* have support for > newfanlged instructions, so we always add new instructions with ".byte". > Then, a few years down the road when we've moved to just old assemblers > instead of super old assemblers, we move to the real instruction names. > > This is all business as usual.
OK, I'm fine with this reasoning as it is neither by any means distruptive change either: Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jar...@kernel.org> BR, Jarkko
