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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Jinsong Liu <jinsong.liu@intel.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

  On 08/23/2010 01:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 23.08.2010, at 11:25, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> On 08/23/2010 12:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Okay, okay.  "But then there's a need explicitly not to instantiate it
>>>> when modelling a 486 or lower".
>>> ...plus the need to instantiate it (as a dedicated device) when modeling
>>> 486 SMP.
>> In short, if we want our model to be perfect, we have to fix reality first.
> How about we don't care about the 486 case?
>

I certainly don't, but others may.

However, the problem remains: every time real hardware doesn't fit our 
pretty model we'll drop support for that hardware?

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