* Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org [021214 16:04]:
The kernel framebuffer driver from NatSemi will work just fine without XpressGRAPHICS though - it's just legacy VGA emulation that doesn't work.
Which version of the fb driver did you use? I did not get any light on the screen with the 2 versions I tried, neither on TV out nor on VGA out. With the original Award BIOS (not XpressROM) it works.
There has been talk about implementing support for VSA2 in LinuxBIOS and some discussion on licensing issues for the VSA ROM blobs included with the BLDT (aka XpressLOADER) but no code has been written yet. This might partly be because we're out of documentation and maybe partly because noone has really needed it yet.
The documentation would probably not be a problem, but the question is whether the code that allows loading VSA modules is not NatSemi IP.
Stefan