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Re:Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when ... by trollian on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:47PM (#25548112)
They're implemented by other emulation systems like bochs: https://sourceforge.net/p/bochs/news/
Re:Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when ... by colejohnson66 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @10:29PM (#25548560)
bochs is probably just too small a fish for Intel to care. But Apple is a big money maker for Intel, so they’d have an incentive to push back legally. The patents aren’t on the implementation, but the function, so I’d wager that bochs is actually infringing. But IANAL, so take it with a grain of salt.