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		garaetjjte 86 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs (2024... Linux never had "must be publicly documented" as a general rule.

dmitrygr 86 days ago [–]

That is fair. Reverse-engineered drivers are common. But depending on undocumented CPU core features seems a bit insane (as indeed the LKML post mentions)

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