Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/6] save/restore on Xen

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/24/2012 12:32 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > >  Clearing the screen should only write to the RAM at 0xB8000 (and
> > >  perhaps 0xA0000 since IIRC it's where text-mode fonts lie).  The
> > >  option ROM cannot even assume that the main BIOS knows about the VESA
> > >  framebuffer, can it?
> Yes, but why should anything else be needed?
>
> When you switch to a graphics mode, clear as much of the framebuffer as
> you need.

Based on the comments, Windows apparently disagrees. :)

Paolo