Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 05:07, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Simon,
In message 20200112190624.79077-1-sjg@chromium.org you wrote:
This series handles moving sandbox to the latest version of SDL, SDL2. It provides a few more features, better performance and has been around for long enough that it is present in distributions in the last several years.
One thing that I never really understood is what SDL is actually good for? Yes, I read in doc/arch/sandbox.rst that it provides "display/keyboard support" - but what exactly can I do with a "SDL enhanced" U-Boot compared to a non-SDL sandbox configuration?
Yes it provides display, keyboard and sound (beep) emulation, so you can develop, use and test those features.
And why is this the default?
Because sandbox tried to enable everything it can to provide the widest possible test coverage. If the features were not built/testing then they might not actually work!
I might have misunderstood what you are getting at here.
Regards, Simon