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Lauri Kasanen schreef op ma 16-03-2020 om 09:14 [+0200]:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:43:45 -0700Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake@gmail.com=
> wrote:
> > Later (for Libre-SOC v2 or v3), it might be a good idea to add support =
forx86 and x86_64 user-mode since the patents for the base ISA will haveexp=
ired by then. This would help give us an advantage since it would allowus t=
o run legacy software.
>=20
> 486 and 586 patents had expired years ago, and we had Chinese 1 GHzimplem=
entations of those (vortex86). Now they have 686 models, so Itake pentium p=
ro patents are also up for use.

I think these were because Via had cross-patent license agreement with Inte=
l.

greets,
Staf.


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