On 01/02/08 21:22 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi Chris! > > First of all, welcome on board! > > On 01.02.2008 21:12, Chris Kilgour wrote: > > Marc Jones wrote: > > > >> The following changes were made: > >> Remove int15 callbacks removed. CPU and memory are calculated by VSA. > >> VSA no longer takes all the MFGPTs. Two are now available for OS use. > >> > > > > I have "ported" the previous VSA sources from the OLPC git tree, so that > > it builds under GNU tools. It is completely untested, but I plan to > > start testing it any time now. It has never been released. > > > > Great, thanks! > > > I would appreciate any comments from the list on: > > 1. hosting these VSA sources. Would coreboot.org be a good place to > > keep the GNU-ified VSA sources? > > > > Probably yes. The laptop.org GIT tree only has 2 revisions. Such an > amount of change could easily be handled with subversion and > coreboot.org surely could handle that. The final decision is made by > Stefan, though.
The history on the GIT tree is really not interesting - it just shows when I pushed the original VSA code and the LX update. > > 2. the idea of permanently moving to a GNU-buildable version? > > > > It would certainly make outside contributions easier. Yes - that would be best. THe original code is nice for debugging behavior in the VSA blob, but really only serves a documentation / historical purpose. If anything, we can toss the original tarball for archival purposes. > > 3. anyone interesting in helping to test the "port"? > > > > I'm pretty sure AMD is interested, although those people working on > Geode targets for coreboot will want to test as well. The ability to > tailor the VSA to do exactly the things we need and skip the rest is a > really exciting prospect. Absolutely, I'm interested. Also, we will want to teach buildrom to build the GNUified VSA. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
