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

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 03:00:26 CEST 2015


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)?

Regards,
Bin


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