From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:11:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from [IPv6:::ffff:217.157.19.70] ([IPv6:::ffff:217.157.19.70]:61960 "EHLO jehova.dsm.dk") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:11:14 +0100 Received: (qmail 28615 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2003 21:11:13 -0000 Received: from cpc5-cmbg1-3-0-cust166.cmbg.cable.ntl.com (HELO home.horsten.com) (@81.100.89.166) by server14.dsm.dk with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 13 Oct 2003 21:11:13 -0000 From: Thomas Horsten To: Ralf Baechle , Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores! Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:15:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: "Liu Hongming (Alan)" , Linux/MIPS Development References: <200310131927.07171.thomas@horsten.com> <20031013204906.GA21100@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20031013204906.GA21100@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310132215.59826.thomas@horsten.com> Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3431 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: thomas@horsten.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Monday 13 October 2003 21:49, Ralf Baechle 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? - Thomas