Philipp Stanner wrote: > As far as I understood the Intel Programmer's Manual the CPUs > provide a 16-bit compatibility-mode in 64-bit-long-mode...
Every new CPU comes out of reset in 16-bit mode, just like 8086. > I don't see a reason why it should be impossible to abolish Real Mode, > Segmentation and basically everything beside Long-Mode and virtual 32 > Bit-mode. The reason is millions if not billions of MS-DOS systems. > The question is if they benefit from changing x86, making it more > modern. I made this point before: > > Compatibility is the only actual value of x86. So in a word: No. It can only hurt, potentially making the whole architecture obsolete. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
