Re: [Qemu-devel] fix clearing i8259 IRQ lines (Was: Should the i8259 devices remain no-user?)

2013-10-29 Thread BALATON Zoltan
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Matthew Ogilvie wrote: Although the 8259 (interrupts) model is clearly wrong with respect to clearing an IRQ request line, only one ancient unimportant guest (Microport UNIX ca. 1987) seems to care, and there are potentially significant risks to more important guests if we

Re: [Qemu-devel] fix clearing i8259 IRQ lines (Was: Should the i8259 devices remain no-user?)

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Ogilvie
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:23:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 16/10/2013 18:21, BALATON Zoltan ha scritto: A bit off topic but this reminded me of these patches: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/206753/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/208252/ which never got merged. Is there a