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+This is the VSA (Virtual Systems Architecture) code used on the AMD
+Geode series of processors. The Geode, rather than carrying lots of
+legacy hardware interfaces that are presumed to exist on x86 systems
+that might be painful to implement on a highly integrated, low power
+processor, the Geode often emulates such interfaces by use of software that is
+invoked by special traps that take place when the processor accesses
+these devices.
+
+Note that the code here is not currently buildable on open source
+systems, being only buildable using very obsolete and no longer
+commercially availble Windows based commercial toolchains.  On the
+OLPC system, these "blobs" of binary code are concatenated together
+with LinuxBIOS and the bootloader, and set up to be executed by
+LinuxBIOS early in the Geode's initialization sequence (no linking is
+involved).
+
+If you are interested for some reason in making this code buildable on
+free systems, please let us know of your progress.  It is under the 
+GNU LGPL. 
+
+Also note that VESA emulation is *not* included in this (nor does what
+we use on the OLPC machine use VESA at this date; we use frame
+buffer code for our console); that code was not owned by AMD and
+therefore not theirs to make available.  Our thanks to AMD to making
+the VSA code available.
+
+		     Jim Gettys, OLPC, September 27, 2006