Re: binutils-2.16.1

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:45:45PM +0300, Anders M Montonen wrote:
> > ISTR Nintendo filed a patent regarding the Gekko extensions. However a
> > search on uspto.gov doesn't bring up anything conclusive. Do you have
> > any patent numbers and/or related documentation I could work with?
> 
> 6,571,328 Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from
> a vector register
> 6,681,296 Method and apparatus for software management of on-chip cache
> 6,701,424 Method and apparatus for efficient loading and storing of
> vectors

Great. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

U.S. 6,571,328 gets no mention in YAGCD though ;)

> IBM's Hot Chips presentation:
> <http://www.hotchips.org/archives/hc13/2_Mon/06ibm-gekko.pdf>

Another interesting read. I uploaded a copy of this to the project
"Files" page earlier this week. These have a reputation of disappearing
mysteriously ;)

	Arthur


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