I think he's accepting that he's only going to get a partial 218 MQA decode (to max 96/24) as an input to his 861. At that point, the 861 can do whatever it likes, but the SEs won't be able to unfold further.

Note that there is no bit-perfect bypass mode in a G6x or 861 processor.

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