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But does this cover software emulation?
by FPGAhacker 8y ago
But does this cover software emulation?
- wmf 8y agoQEMU exists so I guess they're OK with software emulation but Arm seems to go on the attack at the slightest whiff of an unlicensed hardware implementation.
- mcbits 8y agoAre they really OK with it or are they just legally powerless to stop it? That is the question.
- bluejekyll 8y agoIt may not be in their interest to stop it, as those are generally used for testing and building software to target ARM, which helps with their potential market share. Similarly, MS offers free VMs to developers for Windows so that you can build and test against Windows without cost.
- est31 8y agoDo you have a link to those VMs?
- ninjaoxygen 8y agohttps://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
- est31 8y agoThat's very cool. Thank you!
- ohazi 8y agoQemu is used to by software developers to build better software/infrastructure/tooling for the chips that arm gets royalties from. It would be stupid for them to put up a roadblock here.
- monocasa 8y agoThat's grey area. Intel has publicly asserted that their patents apply to emulation, but is hasn't hit the courts AFAIK. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel-fires-warning-shots-at-microsoft-claims-x86-emulation-is-a-patent-minefield/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...