Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-15 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Nov 15, 2007 7:16 AM, Bryan J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence why I wrote a brief blog article here: 'What is x86-64? Long Mode memory model ...' http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-is-x86-64-long-mode-memory-model.html One thing to correct, otherwise it looks fine: 'Long Mode

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
I raised this issue on the Fedora mailing list as well as here and have received a very interesting response. See here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-November/msg02329.html Mr. Boszormenyi apparently needed to apply a patch to the dosemu source tree in order to get dosemu to

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this is substantially beyond my understanding, The first chapter in the AMD x86-64 Programmer's Manual has some great tables on memory model support, although it does lack some more detailed explanation for the unfamilar with 8086, i486 TLB, i686 PAE, etc...

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:16:29 -0800 (PST) Bryan J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence why I wrote a brief blog article here: 'What is x86-64? Long Mode memory model ...' http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-is-x86-64-long-mode-memory-model.html Thanks for that write-up. It's a

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that write-up. It's a truly fascinating read and I can now say that I know a great deal more about the basics of what's going on here than I knew a few minutes ago. A lot of people are confused on what x86-64 is. Programmatically, it's just

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:39:59 +1300 Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is how important the speed is, as most 16-bit programs were written at a time when CPUs were natively slower than the emulation speed now! For me it's not a particularly big deal on my computer; all I do

Re: 64-bit compile? - SOLVED

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:39:15 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just set this computer up with Fedora 8 x86_64, I am trying to compile dosemu to run on it. Note that this is (for now) a pure x86_64 system -- there are no i386 libraries installed on it at all. I got this figured