Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:13:47AM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > >>>Has anyone ever been able to get source to the Insyde/AMD VSA? >> >>From VSA docs, it seems it is possible to get the source from AMD. >>I don't know if anyone has tried to get it yet. > > > Not VSM sources, but VSA init sources. > > Back in 2001 when I was working with the Geode SC1200 National > distributed the BLDT, BootLoader Development Toolkit, aka > XpressLOADER. It was a bunch of assembly source and some > documentation for making a minimal BIOS that would initialize the > system and provide just enough services to init also the VGA BIOS > but nothing more. > > The BLDT was provided free of charge with no royalty fee required for > derived works. > > The BLDT included documentation and source for VSA initialization as > well as VSM binaries.
I still have all the BLDT kits from NSC. If we can use the VSA binaries the same as VideoBIOS then we are set. -Bari -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
