[libre-riscv-dev] LibreSOC - RISCV and POWER dual architecture feasibility

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:53:38 +0100
Staf Verhaegen <staf at fibraservi.eu> wrote:

> Lauri Kasanen schreef op ma 16-03-2020 om 09:14 [+0200]:
> > 486 and 586 patents had expired years ago, and we had Chinese 1 GHzimplementations of those (vortex86). Now they have 686 models, so Itake pentium pro patents are also up for use.
>
> I think these were because Via had cross-patent license agreement with Intel.

DMP is not related to VIA. Via's C and Nano lines happened much
earlier, with the licensing.

- Lauri