Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> First of all, is this actually true? This seems like a monumental >> screwup. >> > > Yes. Is this a report of observed failure? And how would VMWare even > go about implementing this kind of misfeature? Maybe it fails with > particular instructions reading the framebuffer? It supposedly is. >> Second, assuming it is true, what should be done about it? The notion >> that the bootloader should erase the screen is ridiculous since we spend >> a lot of effort maintaining the screen context from 16-bit code. >> >> I see a couple of options: >> > > Maintain a shadow framebuffer, and copy it to the real framebuffer on > update... How would you populate the shadow framebuffer? Pass it in from real mode? -hpa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
