Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.08.2010, at 12:15, Avi Kivity wrote:

> 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?

No, every time real hardware doesn't fit out pretty model and nobody really 
cares, we don't care.

Seriously - would you want to start off modeling everything so that EISA and 
MCA fit in too?


Alex