Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86


It's not really the same platform: one is PC hardware going back forever
with zillions of bugs, the other is modern PC platforms which much less
bugs and quirks

hehe, I'm seeing a bunch of bugs and quirks appear. It's just that
x86_64 isn't as old as i386 to have as many of them. But give it time.

It will always fundamentally always have less bugs and quirks than i386 because
it's much younger. Modern x86 is significantly different than traditional x86
and in the old days hardware wasn't really tested for the now modern interfaces,
so they tended to have a lot of bugs and quirks.

-Andi

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