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Considering there are no meaningful patent-free x86 CPUs in the wild, why should they? It's just the default optimization level for those distros. If patent-fr
by crote 1y ago
Considering there are no meaningful patent-free x86 CPUs in the wild, why should they?
It's just the default optimization level for those distros. If patent-free x86 CPUs become relevant, compiling another set of binaries would be trivial. Until then it doesn't make any sense to kneecap the >99% of x86 deployments by deliberately refusing to use faster and more efficient instructions.
- jacquesm 1y ago> Considering there are no meaningful patent-free x86 CPUs in the wild, why should they? Open core; no ME.
- wmf 1y agoThat's a fair point. I guess a bigger problem is that a patent-free x86 processor couldn't run any supported version of Windows.
- jacquesm 1y agoThat's the last thing I would want to do.