[U-Boot] [PATCH] x86: Remove the old VGA driver

[Simon Glass]

On 14 April 2015 at 19:03, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 14 April 2015 at 19:00, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Bin,
>>>
>>> On 13 April 2015 at 05:05, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> CONFIG_VIDEO_VGA is no longer needed thus remove it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  README                |   6 --
>>>>  arch/x86/lib/Makefile |   1 -
>>>>  arch/x86/lib/video.c  | 205 --------------------------------------------------
>>>>  3 files changed, 212 deletions(-)
>>>>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/lib/video.c
>>>
>>> I played around with a patch that someone sent a few years ago to
>>> enable VGA support in cfb_console (likely a misuse of that file).
>>>
>>> Do you think there is no use for this file? We could perhaps make it
>>> an option to use it, and move it to drivers/video?
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure how this file is useful. I found no board is using this
>> so probably no use. But I may be wrong. Is this driver to be used
>> without vbios support (CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA)?
>
> I suspect so. Still as you say, no boards use it and we can always
> bring it back (perhaps as a proper video driver) when we want it.
>
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!