From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Timur Tabi" <timur@kernel.org>,
"John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: add basic ELF sections parser
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:01:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025053050-maggot-landfall-d5eb@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA9AU3OBT29Z.3CX827C91I3IH@nvidia.com>
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 03:59:03PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM JST, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:58:02AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >> However, Nova also supports a couple of older chip generations that use
> >> the same GSP firmware - it is for these that the ELF unpacking must
> >> occur in the kernel. IIUC this has to do with the capabilities of the
> >> microcontroller that ultimately does the loading (more capable RISC-V on
> >> Hopper+ vs. older and more limited Falcon).
> >
> > Why specifically does the kernel have to get involved here? What
> > requires it to do it that userspace can not?
>
> I don't know of a user-space tool that is readily available and could
> perform such extraction of the ELF content upon kernel request. Is there
> anything like this?
libelf provides you with the needed tools for this.
And you didn't answer my question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-30 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-15 6:03 [PATCH] rust: add basic ELF sections parser Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-15 7:38 ` Greg KH
2025-05-15 8:32 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-15 11:25 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-15 11:42 ` Greg KH
2025-05-15 13:09 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-15 14:30 ` Timur Tabi
2025-05-15 19:17 ` John Hubbard
2025-05-16 13:15 ` Greg KH
2025-05-16 13:26 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-16 13:32 ` Greg KH
2025-05-16 13:35 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-05-16 14:35 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-16 16:01 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-05-16 19:00 ` John Hubbard
2025-05-17 10:13 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-05-17 13:41 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-16 16:28 ` Timur Tabi
2025-05-17 0:51 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-29 6:53 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-29 8:01 ` Greg KH
2025-05-30 0:58 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-30 6:21 ` Greg KH
2025-05-30 6:56 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-30 9:00 ` Greg KH
2025-05-30 6:22 ` Greg KH
2025-05-30 6:59 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-30 9:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-05-30 14:34 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-30 15:42 ` Greg KH
2025-05-30 18:10 ` Timur Tabi
2025-05-31 5:45 ` Greg KH
2025-05-31 10:17 ` Timur Tabi
2025-05-31 12:25 ` Greg KH
2025-05-31 14:38 ` Timur Tabi
2025-05-31 15:28 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-06-01 7:48 ` Greg KH
2025-05-31 12:33 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-05-31 13:30 ` Greg KH
2025-06-01 12:23 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-06-13 3:32 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-06-24 14:26 ` Greg KH
2025-06-24 14:51 ` Danilo Krummrich
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