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Re: [PATCH -tip v5 1/7] x86: instruction decorder API


On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Add x86 instruction decoder to arch-specific libraries. This decoder
> can decode x86 instructions used in kernel into prefix, opcode, modrm,
> sib, displacement and immediates. This can also show the length of
> instructions.

Could also be used to implement a simple disasembler for OOPS output ala
arch/s390/kernel/dis.c?


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