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+# Partial Implementations
+
+It is perfectly legal to implement subsets of SVP64 as long as illegal
+instruction traps are always raised on unimplemented features,
+so that soft-emulation is possible,
+even for future revisions of SVP64. With SVP64 being partly controlled
+through contextual SPRs, a little care has to be taken.
+
 # XER, SO and other global flags
 
 Vector systems are expected to be high performance.  This is achieved