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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 02/11/2010 05:51 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> If it emulated a PCI chipset _but_ ignored any access to the chipset
> registers after the BIOS has initialised whatever it will (by
> unmapping the registers but keeping the chipset device running), that
> would look an awful lot like a real ISA PC at that point, wouldn't it?
>    

If there's nothing that actually cares if there's a PCI chipset, then 
what's the point?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- Jamie
>