From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2011 20:16:25 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] realemu
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On Tue Mar  1 20:07:19 EST 2011, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:

> the real realmode is shoot and pray. it might just crash the machine
> or do wired things like reenable interrupts or even try to switch
> itself to protected mode.
>
> with realemu, you might get a messed up screen, but plan9 is still
> running.  in case the vesa bios did wired stuff that caused plan9 to
> crash before, it might now work with realemu.

have you caught any bioses reenabling interrupts or doing other things
like that?

what's the strategy for detecting vesa bios "doing bad things"?

is the included list of video cards a list of cards that do not work with
the regular realmode but do work with emulated real mode?

- erik