Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> >>> You mean "is a real failure"? Or "is triggered by particular >>> instructions"? It seems profoundly bogus (as in, surely DOS or >>> something reads the framebuffer). >>> >>> >> >> A real failure (although only triggered from some variant of protected >> mode -- paging off?) >> > > Oh, it only happens in protected mode? So the answer to "how does the > shadow framebuffer get populated?" is "real mode does it before > switching to protected mode". > Sure, but that means frobbing the boot parameter structure, with associated problems. I guess I'm not inherently opposed to it, but I'd like to understand if there is a cleaner workaround first. -hpa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
