Re: 64bit FP emulation

Nigel Stephens <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:29:09 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips
Organization	MIPS Technologies (UK)
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Simon Burge wrote:

>>I once toyed an idea to approach Algorithmics but the company is...
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>Now that Algorithmics is part of MIPS I dunno if they'd be more or less
>interested in releasing their FP emulation under a BSD-style licence...
>

As Algorithmics we had already released it for use in the Linux kernel, 
so probably that makes it effectively GPL now, and I think that it might 
be hard to "un-GPL" it for use in the BSD kernel. If you think that 
isn't a problem, then feel free to talk to us here at MIPS (UK).

Nigel

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