Geode Video Xfree86 and VSA

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Wed May 21 10:14:00 CEST 2003


Christer Weinigel wrote:

>I've just looked briefly at it, but if I remember correctly, what's
>needed is to copy the VSA BIOS to ram somewhere below 640k (since it
>should be started in real mode) and then jumped into.  The BIOS has to
>provide a few INT 15h functions to report the current memory size.
>There might be some additional restraints such as only certain base
>addresses working (since only XpressROM/Insyde use this) or that the
>VSA code relies on a certain layout of the rest of the BIOS in ROM.
>
>  
>
That's why I was looking at possibly getting BOCHS to work with VSA for 
the INT 15 functions. Having full graphics and the audio up on the 
SCx2xx for embedded apps would be nice.

--Bari





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