[OLPC-devel] you can try this

[Goodrich,Steven]

Caveat: I've not tried this yet.

(no, I don't always start my emails with a Caveat)

Here is a minimal VSA with a "lite" version of our VGA component.  This
does not support virtualized VGA registers, but should initialize
everything enough for a framebuffer driver.  I'll be testing this myself
shortly, although I have no way to test this for functionality... I can
only verify that it loads and doesn't hang the system, and I'll do that
in a bit.

File included:
	OLPC_VSA.BIN	- the VSA package you should use
	SYSMGR.VSM	- the system manager VSM
	LEGACY.VSM	- the Legacy VSM (for PCI virtualization, etc.)
	VSAINIT.BIN	- the init code
	SOFTVG.VSM	- the VGA configuration VSM

    -- Steve G. 

Steve Goodrich (Steven.Goodrich at amd.com)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: devel-bounces at laptop.org [mailto:devel-bounces at laptop.org] On
Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:40 AM
To: Ronald G Minnich
Cc: devel at laptop.org
Subject: Re: [OLPC-devel] you can try this

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> I made a stupid mistake and am out of the flash burning business for a

> day ... unless someone can tell me how to burn flash from the FS2, but

> that thing does not seem to be able to do it.
> 
> If you burn this 512k image, and run it on olpc, in theory you should 
> see linuxbios, then linux come up.


I tested this last night, and it worked. We're in the
booting-linux-from-flash business.

Steve, time for VGA.

ron
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