On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 07:07:19PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 
>1)  Is there any reason why DUMMY_NOPS shouldn't be completely excised
> from the source tree?  It was removed from locore at the time it
> was renamed from locore.s to locore.S.  I can whip up some patches and
> send-pr them if it's agreed this is a good idea.

I decided to just go ahead and do this part.  The PR is port-i386/24442
if anyone is interested.