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
