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No, there's a lot of PCisms that that can be removed and still allow for x86 cores. User code doesn't care about PC compat really anymore (see the PS4 Linux po
by monocasa 5y ago
No, there's a lot of PCisms that that can be removed and still allow for x86 cores. User code doesn't care about PC compat really anymore (see the PS4 Linux port for the specifics of a non PC x86 platform that runs regular x86 user code like Steam, albeit one arguably worse designed than the PC somehow). Cleaning up ring 0 in a way that ring 3 code can't tell the difference with a vaguely modern kernel could be a huge win.