Dear Timur Tabi,
2012/3/27 Marek Vasut marex@denx.de:
Dear Timur Tabi,
Marek Vasut wrote:
Agreed, but I expected there was some dead code and that was the point I was trying to express ;-)
Well, until you do a thorough analysis, you really have no idea if there is any dead code at all.
I don't ... but Viktor probably does and I believe that's what he wants to ask about.
Yes I do the analysis, actually only one method is used (PCI_mapBIOSImage), but there are two other methods related to video card. Booth in file drivers/bios_emulator/atibios.c (PCI_mapBIOSImage, PCI_unmapBIOSImage). Nothing calls they but I think they can be preserved too.
But there are a lots of other code which can be removed. For example BE_mapRealPointer() from drivers/bios_emulator/biosemu.c or BE_getVESABuf() from same file. So my question is: It is safe remove dead code or somebody can use it for debugging purposes ? I've got same problem with another driver so this is general question.
Best regards, Viktor Krivak