Dear Wolfgang Denk, > Dear Marek Vasut, > > In message <201203261531.18334.ma...@denx.de> you wrote: > > So that means the board work without this bios emulator driver if the > > radeon driver is disabled? But we want to use the radeon driver, so we > > need the bios emulator stuff. > > Right. If you don't need feature X and do not configure it, then you > don't need the driver that implements feature X, and building without > this driver works. If you need feature X, then you must include it, > and it is usually no dead code then. > > And even if it was, the combination of -ffunction-sections / > -fdata-sections with --gc-sections should prevent any damages.
Well, certainly ... but from what Viktor told me, there are slabs of dead code in this stuff. > > > I think the discussion quite drifted away from the original question, > > which was if the dead code in bios emulator stuff can be simply removed? > > ... and if it really is dead code. > > If you need the BIOS emulator to initialize the BIOS of a graphics > card it it probably not exactly "dead code". Certainly, though I'm not confident if all of the bios emulator stuff is used. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot