[PATCH 10/24] video: Enable VIDEO_ANSI by default only with EFI

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 17 22:29:46 CEST 2022


This is not generally needed unless EFI_LOADER is used. Adjust the default
setting to reduce the size of the U-Boot build.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

 drivers/video/Kconfig | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
index 32938376655..ed77815504b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
@@ -118,10 +118,13 @@ config VIDEO_BPP32
 config VIDEO_ANSI
 	bool "Support ANSI escape sequences in video console"
 	depends on DM_VIDEO
-	default y
+	default y if EFI_LOADER
 	help
 	  Enable ANSI escape sequence decoding for a more fully functional
-	  console.
+	  console. Functionality includes changing the text colour and moving
+	  the cursor. These date from the 1970s and are still widely used today
+	  to control a text terminal. U-Boot implements these by decoding the
+	  sequences and performing the appropriate operation.
 
 config VIDEO_MIPI_DSI
 	bool "Support MIPI DSI interface"
-- 
2.38.0.413.g74048e4d9e-goog



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