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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:27:10 -0700
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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".

    J