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[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

[โ€“] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.