On 04/10/08 21:59 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > > You'd need a VGA emulation VSA and AFAIK that piece of software is not > > > available as open source due to an interesting rights situation. > > > > > Alternatively you could build a VGA option rom that initializes VGA on > > the Geode. The hardware dependent code is in libpayload already. It just > > needs to be integrated in something like "vgabios" > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/ > > Just a random note - I think it should be possible to port the above > "vgabios" project from bcc to gcc - similar to how SeaBIOS was ported. > The gcc compiler produces much better code than bcc (even after all > the 32bit prefixes are added), and a port to gcc should make adding > chip specific functions much easier. > > I'm not an expert on VGA, but I think it may be possible to implement > a bare bones vgabios with only a couple of chip specific functions > (eg, initialization and mode switching). Given the recent > availability of specs from AMD and Via, there is a possibility that on > board VGA could be completely handled with open source code.
Not just a possibility - but a certainty. Geode could be ported in a matter of hours. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
