[coreboot] [PATCH] Add kconfig menus for most chipset VIDEO_MB values

[Joseph Smith]

On 10/26/2009 11:18 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
>>>> I think it's pretty ugly to have 512 be the value for CONFIG_VIDEO_MB
>> that
>>>> means 512K.  I know you didn't do that, but...  Maybe we could just say
>> the
>>>> 512K of RAM doesn't make that much difference and make the minimum 1MB?
>>>
>>> Yeah, the 512KB thing is not really nice, but there's not much we can do
>>> about it. We could turn VIDEO_MB into VIDEO_KB instead to have the same
>>> unit everywhere, not sure if that's nicer or uglier.
>>>
>>> I don't want to leave out valid options supported by the hardware
>>> though, so the 512KB setting should stay. I think it's not _that_ big
>>> of a problem as the uglyness is only visible to the developers of
>>> two chipsets I think (i810 and i830), but not to the other developers
>>> and especially not to the user (who sees nice menuconfig entries).
>>> We can leave it as is IMHO.
>>>
>> Yes it is ugly but decimals would be uglier (0.5MB) especially in
>> calculations. Anyways if it is supported by the chip it should be there.
> I don't think "supported by the chipset" is a strong enough argument.  There
> are lots of horrible configurations supported by chips that aren't supported
> by coreboot.  If there's a good argument why someone might want 512K of
> video memory instead of 1MB, then that's a reason to keep it.
>
> It is hard for me to believe that saving 512K of RAM matters to anyone.
>
I does when you don't care when you just use a shell (lamp server etc).
Also if your board only has 128MB on board memory, you may want to 
conserve as much as you can.....


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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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