[PATCH v3 11/25] video: Enable VIDEO_ANSI by default only with EFI
    Simon Glass 
    sjg at chromium.org
       
    Fri Jan  6 15:52:29 CET 2023
    
    
  
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>
---
(no changes since v1)
 drivers/video/Kconfig | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
index c841b99bb30..0c914dc1165 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
@@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ config VIDEO_BPP32
 
 config VIDEO_ANSI
 	bool "Support ANSI escape sequences in video console"
-	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"
-- 
2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog
    
    
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