On 06/10/08 15:31 +0100, Stephen Crocker wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > On 03.10.2008 12:29, Stephen Crocker wrote: > >> Is there a way of getting VGA support with SeaBIOS on the AMD Geode LX > >> framebuffer? I have successfully built and tested a BIOS image that > >> appears to boot into DOS but the lack of display means that it is of > >> little use. Is there a VGA ROM image that I can include? > > > > 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. > > How much of this is handled in AMD's binary VSA module? I have been > looking through both the AMD and OpenVSA source and it looks as if the > lxvg module is supposed to handle VGA SMIs but I cannot find where this > is actually done.
None of it - the VGA is actually a seperate component under difference licensing. Thats why you don't see it in the VSA code. > Incidentally, I have noticed that the AMD VSA source available from > dev.laptop.org cannot be used to build an image with CS5536 support. Is > this an old version and, if so, is newer source available? Umm... http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=geode-vsa;a=blob;f=sysmgr/cs5536.c;h=422922cab808fa8ca529726c2ab43e76b4289406;hb=HEAD Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
