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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vga: Mark VBE area as reserved in e820 tables
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:41:52 -0600
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On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 10:22 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 10/14/10 20:36, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Otherwise the guest might try to use the range for device hotplug.
> 
> Aaaaarrgh.
> 
> /me tries to kill vga_init_vbe() usage for everything (but isa-vga) for 
> *months* now.  I want to zap the magic framebuffer @ 
> VBE_DISPI_LFB_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS instead of trying to convince guests to 
> not touch it using all kinds of voodoo.

Sorry I missed that.  Sure, if we can zap it entirely and move it into
the option ROM, that clearly seems like the way to go.  Thanks,

Alex