mips and proprietary instructions

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 25 March 2007, Will Newton wrote:
> Several MIPS instructions have been patented. The patent expired
> recently, but several "MIPS compatible" cores, including quite
> probably the Chinese Godson chip, do not implement them:

ah, well in that case it's a weak argument ... uClibc supports the MIPS 
architecture as normally defined and used in the common world

besides, since when did the chinese care about patents ...
-mike
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