Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] gpu: nova-core: process and prepare more firmwares to boot GSP

["Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>]

On Wed Aug 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 8/25/25 9:07 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> ...
>> The base of this series is today's nova-next, but there a few more
>> unmerged dependencies required:
>> 
>> - BorrowedPage, AsPageIter and VmallocPageIter [2]
>> - Rust infrastructure for sg_table and scatterlist [3]
>> - FromBytes [4]
>> - The Alignment series [5]
>
> Hi Alex!
>
> For future patchsets that have complex and/or lengthy prerequisite
> patchsets, let's please please make it easier for people to
> locally apply the series. Very important. 
>
> The very nicest experience is by simply providing a link to your git
> branch that exactly matches the patchset you just posted.
>
> In this particular case, it would also have worked to just say, "this 
> series can be applied by first applying FromBytes [4], to the base commit."
>
> Because that works, and is simpler than hunting down the other three
> items, which are not actually necessary for git am (although they
> might be for actual testing).
>
> But the point is that the admin can be made simpler for the reviewers--even
> those of us who know exactly what you're up to. And we should keep
> that in mind, especially because there are many more of these situations
> coming soon.

Right, b4 is supposed to be able to help with this as well, but indeed a
link to a git tree should be the standard with patchsets requiring such
dependencies. :) Will try to keep this in mind.