From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:17:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4679C37E.5020908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4679C152.8070407@goop.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-21 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 23:44 Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls? H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 0:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-21 0:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 0:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 21:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-06-22 2:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-22 2:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-06-22 3:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-04 4:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 9:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-04 12:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 14:19 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 20:14 ` [syslinux] " H. Peter Anvin
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