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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: jes.sorensen@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] vga: Mark VBE area as reserved in e820 tables
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:41:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287153712.21691.1.camel@x201> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB80F2F.3050609@redhat.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 18:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vga: Mark VBE area as reserved in e820 tables Alex Williamson
2010-10-15  8:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2010-10-15 14:41   ` Alex Williamson [this message]

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