Hello,
It's not often that I would interject a subject like this into a Gentoo discuss. However, from my reading of this patent, the awardee may be able to cause significant grief to anyone that use a uP, FPGA, or such with at CPU/GPU. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F7607005 Hopefully, some of you will read about this patent and conclude that this no way affects any embedded linux system or any form of programmable embedded linux device, particularly any where reconfigurable or programmable hardware is contained therein.... This patent looks like the poster child for embedded system, that should not have been issued. Hopefully Europeans are not this stupid to allow this sort of patent-garbage to even be filled, let alone enforced. I see little in the way of original thought or work as every claim made by the filers has existed before, from my experiences. The "moron" that reviewed this: "Primary Examiner: Connolly; Mark " must be clueless about embedded systems, imho. your thoughts? James
