Re: IOAPIC doesn't handle byte writes

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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:13:02PM +0100, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> KVM emulates an IOAPIC that doesn't handle byte writes to its
> IOAPIC_REG_SELECT register, although for example the ICH10 spec[1]
> clearly states that this is an 8-bit register. See
> http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/io-controller-hub-10-family-datasheet.pdf
>  Table 13-4 on page 433.
> 
The same spec also says that access to data register has to be dword,
but new code as of 1b8cf174cf2c0f0c66030fe81af818e9abf4f302 does not
enforce this. Old code never enforced it for read too :(

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