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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ignore reads to the EOI register.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:18:54 +0200
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Glauber Costa wrote:
> They seem legal in real hardware, even though the EOI
> is a write-only register. By "legal" I mean they are completely
> ignored, but at least, don't cause any bits to be set at ESR.
>
> Without this patch, some (very recent) linux git trees will fail
> to boot in i386.
>
> This is generated from kvm-userspace, but should apply well to
> plain qemu too.
>
>   

Applied, but perhaps a patch to linux to avoid reads to write-only 
registers is needed as well.

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