Re: [Gc-linux-devel] binutils-2.16.1

[Anders M M. <amm...@cc...>]

> 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

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

Regards,
Anders Montonen