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

[Simon Glass]

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>

Regards,
Simon