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by rwmj
2894 days ago
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The machine mode is there for a very good reasons of microarchitecture design scalability, allowing the same machine model to be presented to the operating system with everything from tiny designs to everything-in-hardware. In all existing designs it is open source. It's quite reasonable to have this explicit layer, since in many other cases it has been hidden away (think: Transmeta, or many x86 emulators). |
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