Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 19:32, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: > > One guy emulates the old 8-bit CP/M OS (and Z80 cpu) via Ultibo > (written in Free Pascal), thus > allowing him to run Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M : > > * http://www.projekte.daleske.de/prog/11_EMUZ80_RPI/prog_EMUZ80_RPI_en.htm The

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-14 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I think there may be a point where if one's going to run DOS on > a modern machine, it'll have to be through some degree of emulation. > Whether that be a KVM/QEMU-on-metal approach, or a 64-bit "DOS" which can >

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-13 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: Ryzen (Zen 1) was brand new in 2017, redesigned from scratch. I doubt the current Zen 4 (2022) has that bug, but who knows. (Now that the BIOS and CSM are dead, they may not care to fix it. And the whole "x86-S" rumors imply legacy is going

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-13 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:44 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > Hi! I just got reminded that (2017 news) > > http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/ > > VME is broken on AMD Ryzen of that time Ryzen (Zen 1) was brand new in 2017, redesigned from scratch. I doubt the

[Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-13 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! I just got reminded that (2017 news) http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/ VME is broken on AMD Ryzen of that time. That sounds like something which would be relevant for JEMM386, because it could automatically activate NOVME mode for affected CPU. Does anybody remember