| To: | Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores! |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:37:26 +0200 |
| Cc: | Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, "Liu Hongming (Alan)" <alanliu@trident.com.cn>, Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> |
| In-reply-to: | <200310132215.59826.thomas@horsten.com> |
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| References: | <200310131927.07171.thomas@horsten.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0310132132550.26520-100000@starflower.sonytel.be> <20031013204906.GA21100@linux-mips.org> <200310132215.59826.thomas@horsten.com> |
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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 |
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