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I'm genuinely interested in the point you make about the these instructions but it's not helpful to mention something like this without a link to more informati

I'm genuinely interested in the point you make about the these instructions but it's not helpful to mention something like this without a link to more information. On the first point you said 'Apple doesn't care' which I read as Apple doesn't care about the licensing rules - if you meant something else then fine but I think most people would read it that way.

saagarjha 6y ago
I meant it in the way of "I don't think Apple has to care" since they do not follow them–what I do not know is if Apple has some other agreement in place, or they are violating something. For the instructions: the reason I didn't provide a link is because it would be very hard for me to do so, as these instructions are proprietary and undocumented, plus Apple strips out this code from their open source releases. The best I could find in the latest tarball is a definition for __ARM_WKDM_ISA_AVAILABLE__ for the Monsoon cores inside of A11: https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/xnu/blob/65d5be84e21bccbae44730ddb3b307a701b0351a/osfmk/arm/proc_reg.h#L162 https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/xnu/blob/65d5be8...