From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, glommer@gmail.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, macro@linux-mips.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] ignore reads to the EOI register.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:18:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EB586E.3090002@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12065794361493-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
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.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 0:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ignore reads to the EOI register Glauber Costa
2008-03-27 8:18 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-03-27 11:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] ` <87hcesjpqa.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
2008-03-27 12:55 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-27 13:36 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-03-27 23:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-28 12:59 ` Glauber Costa
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