From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:58:11 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] BIOS EMULATOR driver In-Reply-To: <4F71FE2F.5060208@freescale.com> References: <201203271949.00034.marex@denx.de> <4F71FE2F.5060208@freescale.com> Message-ID: <201203271958.12127.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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