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[dragorth]

I did read your whole post and I pointed out why that is a bad idea. I will enumerate so it is explicit.

1. You want separate working drivers...

[dragorth]

This hints at memory management issues. Without more details, I am not sure I understand. Did Apple somehow limit the memory mapping to just the amount...

[dragorth]

What special thing is needed in hardware other than the PCI-E bus and lanes?

Also, the work I was referring to was the whole project, getting...

[dragorth]

Zink relies on Gallium3D, and Zink will want to have things to compare to so this probably won't happen like that....

[dragorth]

Wasn't one of the selling points of Vulkan an easier to implement driver? Is it due to most Linux backends still using OpenGL so they focused on that...

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Intel and MS care* about all those customers that are still running proprietary software today that only runs on Win7 but is also only...

[dragorth]

Do you mean like the Mill's architecture that uses a flat address space externally but has internal virtual address space for the CPU? It does this in...

[dragorth]

That isn't comparable at all. Those were 2 completely different archetectures, with no relations, they couldn't run each other's code.

And...

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There are other considerations. For all intents and purposes, each x86-64 CPU has 2 full decoder layers, the x86-64 one that translates to what the internal...

[dragorth]

There are so many assumptions baked into that statement. You can just as easily say, if not for AMD we would have switched from x86 a decade ago. You...

[dragorth]

Since they are envisioning a cleaner ISA, nothing stops them from using something similar to the RISC-V architecture approach for this new x86s architecture....

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Since there front page states they would utilyze virtualization hardware in the CPU, I would assume it would go something like UEFI boot to their Hypervisor...

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I was contrasting it to the Amiga that did interface directly with the Dos cards. They could share the Hard Drive, and run apps on bath at the same time....

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Even if you don't read their PDF, the linked page from Intel suggests they have some idea of an emulation mode for those instances. Considering it is...

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I mean, the current Intel lineup literally has FPGAs built in. My argument is that the already made and designed cores they are already using that will...

[dragorth]

I honestly don't see anyone mentioning the obvious, Intel can do this easily and keep 32bit compatibility by doing the big. Little design they already...

[dragorth]

You are a very optimistic fellow....