On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:10:54PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
The VSA binary source is LGPL
Awesome!
and is available at: http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=geode-vsa
git.do seems broken. I get a PHP error.
This is just a temporary home until we can port it to open source/linux tools and find the code a home. It currently builds with Microsoft MASM and C. We are trying to move to GCC. We post the binary since most OSD can't build it.
You can earn a lot of free credit by also mentioning the source. :)
Also, is the VSA binary needed for _any_ LinuxBIOS usage on the LX, or just to enable certain features? In other words, can we do _anything_ with the LX without the VSA binary?
VSA is not required. An example is the OLPC Open Firmware + custom Linux image.
Could you expand on what benfits this VSA blob lead to?
And how does it hook into LinuxBIOS?
Is the blob really only a VSM, and there is already generic VSA support in LinuxBIOS?
Etc.
//Peter