* Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de [070503 12:01]:
The VSA binary source is LGPL and is available at: http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=geode-vsa
Wow! Now I'm impressed. This is really great news!
This code has been out for quite a while, and it is really great stuff although it will be hard for most LinuxBIOS developers to compile it themselfes. It means that we can build binary images in the build system and have them prepacked with the VSA code though, making deployment of LinuxBIOS for the Geode LX platform very easy for the users.
OFW does not use the VSA at all anymore (as far as I know, please correct me if I am wrong), since running the modules was slowing down the boot process quite a bit (compared to the rest of the boot time at least) So one question is in my mind: Can we implement the setup done by VSA as native LinuxBIOS code, and does it make sense? What are the draw backs in such a scenario?
Stefan