[U-Boot] BIOS EMULATOR driver

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Mar 27 19:58:11 CEST 2012


Dear Timur Tabi,

> Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Sure, but I see no point in keeping such dead code in U-Boot code base.
> > Aka. why keep functions in U-Boot that are never used?
> 
> I think what Wolfgang is trying to say is that no one has proven that
> there actually IS any unused code.  The ATI driver needs the BIOS
> emulator, so you need to enable support for the ATI driver to see what is
> and is not actually used.  Just because it's not enabled currently in any
> board, that doesn't mean that the code is useless.

Agreed, but I expected there was some dead code and that was the point I was 
trying to express ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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