Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] gpu: nova-core: transition booter_load to TLV images

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, 2026-07-09 at 12:51 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> > The .rst does not mention that Booter is signed, only that if the firmware is unsigned, then
> > NSIG is
> > 0 and SIGN does not exist.  And since get_bytes() now returns Error if SIGN doesn't exist,
> > we
> > enforce that here.
> > 
> > But you're right in that it does feel a little off.  That's one of the reasons I had
> > get_nth() in v1
> > -- to streamline getting the nth signature.  
> > 
> > What do you think about adding a get_signature(index) method that combines parsing NSIG and
> > SIGN,
> > automatically calculating sig_size and returning Option<&[u8]> ?
> 
> That would make sense to me, yes. The current ad-hoc code is rather
> messy and having it in a separate method would definitely help with that.
> 
> Do you mean to make it a method of `Tlv` or `BooterFirmware`? The latter
> looks more adequate for the time being, as AFAIK Booter is the only user
> of this signature.

It's a method of Tlv, since it's along the same lines as "get_u32", but still different.  I
added it in v4, please take a look.