RE: [PATCH 00/18] x86: new .insn directive

["Jiang, Haochen" <haochen.jiang@intel.com>]

> > We will evaluate if these changes will cause any potential issues for
> > the future.
> 
> Okay, but please supply me with a time frame for this activity. It's
> not reasonable to have me sit on this kind of work (and potentially
> have to rebase it repeatedly over other work) for an extended period
> of time. Furthermore, should potential issues be found, there'll
> need to be enough detail for me to actually address these (rather
> than wait until such features would become publicly known).
> 

We have created a branch from scratch and currently under evaluating.

Lingling will give her further opinion on this. I suppose two weeks might
be enough.

Really appreciate the work and looking forward to see it happen.

Thx,
Haochen

> In the absence of a timeline I'll get v2 out soonish (I've found
> that I failed to remember to re-run the testsuite on a broader set
> of sub-targets after adding the immediate operands handling and the
> conversion of some of the existing testcases; hence some adjustments
> were needed there), and then wait like two weeks for comments of any
> kind. Should none surface, I think I can rightfully commit the whole
> lot then. (As indicated, I may commit a subset ahead of submitting
> v2, not the least to limit the volume of the re-submission. But of
> course again only unless comments surface which would need
> addressing.)
> 
> Jan