Transmeta to bring out the NX bit

http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8483278

Transmeta did license AMD's AMD64 architecture a few years back, so they're
allowed to do it. However, I'm not sure if this is just the NX bit, or if
Transmeta is bringing out the whole AMD64 instruction set in Efficeon. I
assume that this isn't a complete AMD64 implementation. They are doing it
with the code morphing technology. I assume that they are providing
Microsoft with samples of the new firmware, just to make sure that Microsoft
doesn't screwup and not recognize that Transmeta processors might have the
feature too. Sometimes Microsoft tends to take strange shortcuts in
detecting things, so likely Transmeta doesn't want Microsoft to assume that
Efficeon doesn't have NX even though it may not have the full AMD64.

Yousuf Khan

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