From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:34:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2B514C4A-E484-47B2-8B3B-3DF07A2D9165@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905260827.21663.volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
On 26 May 2009, at 07:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> ...
>> I did think that. But with other instructions adopted by the other
>> manufacturer (eg. Intel adopted the amd64 architecture, I think?) it
>> seemed odd that a set of instructions would be ignored so long.
>
> because 3dnow is/was very unimportant for intel- but Intel couldn't
> compete
> without AMD64. So they had to licence it. 3dnow and SSE have a lot
> of commands
> in common/similar commands anyway so it doesn't really matter from
> Intels POV.
Completely OT now, but I seem to have a recollection that they have a
cross-licensing agreement which covers stuff like this without further
royalties.
Thanks for your help & the interesting discussion,
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-26 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 4:27 [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Stroller
2009-05-26 4:37 ` Adam Carter
2009-05-26 4:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-26 4:37 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-26 5:00 ` Stroller
2009-05-26 5:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-26 6:15 ` Stroller
2009-05-26 6:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-26 8:34 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-05-26 14:31 ` Daniel Iliev
2009-05-26 21:07 ` Stroller
2009-05-27 0:47 ` Daniel Iliev
2009-05-27 8:14 ` Stroller
2009-05-27 10:00 ` Daniel Iliev
2009-05-27 12:14 ` Stroller
2009-05-27 19:57 ` Wyatt Epp
2009-05-27 20:04 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-27 20:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-27 20:40 ` Wyatt Epp
2009-05-27 20:47 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-27 21:04 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-05-27 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-27 23:00 ` Adam Carter
2009-05-27 20:08 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-05-27 21:04 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-05-27 21:23 ` Arttu V.
2009-05-28 10:17 ` Daniel Iliev
2009-05-28 19:13 ` Stroller
2009-05-28 20:08 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-05-28 20:19 ` Stroller
2009-05-28 20:27 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-05-28 20:38 ` Stroller
2009-05-29 5:30 ` Graham Murray
2009-05-29 6:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-29 6:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-29 15:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-05-29 7:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-05-26 22:20 ` KH
2009-05-26 22:26 ` KH
2009-05-26 22:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-26 13:26 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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