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