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  Hi,

> Maybe instead (or in addition to), we should provide a dummy
> read or write functions -- instead of fixing each such occurence
> to use its own dummy function

Makes sense, especially for write where we can just ignore what the
guest attempts to write.  Not sure we can have a generic handler for
reads.  Maybe two, one which returns 0xff and one which returns 0x00.

cheers,
  Gerd