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I am sorry but I cannot recall a message from you about this (can be 
eaten by the spam filter or simply lost?). I mean that you have always 
answered my questions about the video driver and similar thing (thanks 
again) just not those processor core questions so I supposed that it is 
not your area. My first questions were:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-May/005227.html
They were written at a time when I was thinking that the spec is just 
missing some data here and there.
Now my simple question is (better call it a request):
On this page
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Geode_LX
I have named some instructions as "Synchronized ops" (in the MMX 
section). Are those real or did I mismeasured something? If those are 
real then would somebody from AMD just go through the databook and fix 
the instruction clock cycle numbers? Because in that case it is sure 
that they do not match reality and clearly I have better things to do 
than measuring clock cycles. Also the legend is clearly wrong in several 
cases so probably that would need checking too (like on page 668 note 4 
talks about 3DNOW ops in the table about FP ops). Also there is 
absolutely no info about L2 cache miss penalties or mispredicted jumps 
or about the pipeline stages of the FP unit.
See, all I would like to have is enough data that when I look at 
assembly code I could approximately calculate how many clock cycles will 
be consumed. Nothing more and nothing less.
Thanks!


> I will note that when I asked you for more information as to what you
> thought was missing or incorrect, I got no response.  If you tell me
> _exactly_ what you think you need, I can try to get the information.
> However, I do need exact demands.  General "you suck, tell us more" 
> requests are not effective arguments with the documentation gatekeepers.
>
> Jordan
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