LinuxBios on SC2200 board from National
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at suse.de
Sat Dec 14 12:07:01 CET 2002
* Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at 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
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