From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"Liu Hongming (Alan)" <alanliu@trident.com.cn>,
Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores!
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:37:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031013213726.GA25414@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310132215.59826.thomas@horsten.com>
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:59PM +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> > That correct. Unfortunately emulating of these instructions in exception
> > handlers would also be covered by the patents, so rewriting which would
> > be rather easy in all cases I can think of is the way to go ...
>
> Surely not in Europe (yet), at least?
The patent itself is a hardware patent and those also cover software
implementations by interpretation of US, European and various national
European patent offices. Otoh the patent will expire in like a year or
two anyway :-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 1:44 need help on unaligned loads,stores! Liu Hongming (Alan)
2003-10-13 18:27 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 19:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-13 20:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-10-13 21:15 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 21:37 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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2003-10-14 1:18 Liu Hongming (Alan)
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