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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	<nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev>, Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>, <zhiw@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] gpu: nova-core: transition gen_bootloader to TLV images
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:49:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260610174929.744477-7-ttabi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260610174929.744477-1-ttabi@nvidia.com>

Switch the generic bootloader firmware loader from the legacy binary
format to the TLV format.  This change requires the new TLV versions
of the r570.144 firmware images.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs             | 22 ------
 .../nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs    | 72 +++++--------------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
index 8ef7f084f834..fbc9e0cd0021 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
@@ -366,28 +366,6 @@ fn no_patch_signature(self) -> FirmwareObject<F, Signed> {
     }
 }
 
-/// Header common to most firmware files.
-#[repr(C)]
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-struct BinHdr {
-    /// Magic number, must be `0x10de`.
-    bin_magic: u32,
-    /// Version of the header.
-    bin_ver: u32,
-    /// Size in bytes of the binary (to be ignored).
-    bin_size: u32,
-    /// Offset of the start of the application-specific header.
-    header_offset: u32,
-    /// Offset of the start of the data payload.
-    data_offset: u32,
-    /// Size in bytes of the data payload.
-    data_size: u32,
-}
-
-// SAFETY: all bit patterns are valid for this type, and it doesn't use interior mutability.
-unsafe impl FromBytes for BinHdr {}
-
-
 pub(crate) struct ModInfoBuilder<const N: usize>(firmware::ModInfoBuilder<N>);
 
 impl<const N: usize> ModInfoBuilder<N> {
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs
index 039920dc340b..ef80ff19127e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@
         Alignment, //
     },
     sizes,
-    transmute::{
-        AsBytes,
-        FromBytes, //
-    },
+    transmute::AsBytes,
 };
 
 use crate::{
@@ -46,38 +43,14 @@
     },
     firmware::{
         fwsec::FwsecFirmware,
-        request_firmware,
-        BinHdr,
-        FIRMWARE_VERSION, //
+        request_tlv,
+        Tlv, //
     },
     gpu::Chipset,
     num::FromSafeCast,
     regs,
 };
 
-/// Descriptor used by RM to figure out the requirements of the boot loader.
-///
-/// Most of its fields appear to be legacy and carry incorrect values, so they are left unused.
-#[repr(C)]
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-struct BootloaderDesc {
-    /// Starting tag of bootloader.
-    start_tag: u32,
-    /// DMEM load offset - unused here as we always load at offset `0`.
-    _dmem_load_off: u32,
-    /// Offset of code section in the image. Unused as there is only one section in the bootloader
-    /// binary.
-    _code_off: u32,
-    /// Size of code section in the image.
-    code_size: u32,
-    /// Offset of data section in the image. Unused as we build the data section ourselves.
-    _data_off: u32,
-    /// Size of data section in the image. Unused as we build the data section ourselves.
-    _data_size: u32,
-}
-// SAFETY: any byte sequence is valid for this struct.
-unsafe impl FromBytes for BootloaderDesc {}
-
 /// Structure used by the boot-loader to load the rest of the code.
 ///
 /// This has to be filled by the GPU driver and copied into DMEM at offset
@@ -150,38 +123,23 @@ pub(crate) fn new(
         dev: &Device<device::Bound>,
         chipset: Chipset,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let fw = request_firmware(dev, chipset, "gen_bootloader", FIRMWARE_VERSION)?;
-        let hdr = fw
-            .data()
-            .get(0..size_of::<BinHdr>())
-            .and_then(BinHdr::from_bytes_copy)
-            .ok_or(EINVAL)?;
-
-        let desc = {
-            let desc_offset = usize::from_safe_cast(hdr.header_offset);
-
-            fw.data()
-                .get(desc_offset..)
-                .and_then(BootloaderDesc::from_bytes_copy_prefix)
-                .ok_or(EINVAL)?
-                .0
-        };
+        let fw = request_tlv(dev, chipset, "gen_bootloader")?;
+        let tlv = Tlv::new(fw.data())?;
+        dev_info!(
+            dev,
+            "loaded generic bootloader firmware v{}\n",
+            tlv.get_string("VERS")?
+        );
 
         let ucode = {
-            let ucode_start = usize::from_safe_cast(hdr.data_offset);
-            let code_size = usize::from_safe_cast(desc.code_size);
-            // Align to falcon block size (256 bytes).
+            let blob = tlv.get_bytes("BLOB")?;
+            let code_size = usize::from_safe_cast(tlv.get_u32("CDSZ")?);
             let aligned_code_size = code_size
                 .align_up(Alignment::new::<{ falcon::MEM_BLOCK_ALIGNMENT }>())
                 .ok_or(EINVAL)?;
 
             let mut ucode = KVec::with_capacity(aligned_code_size, GFP_KERNEL)?;
-            ucode.extend_from_slice(
-                fw.data()
-                    .get(ucode_start..ucode_start + code_size)
-                    .ok_or(EINVAL)?,
-                GFP_KERNEL,
-            )?;
+            ucode.extend_from_slice(blob.get(..code_size).ok_or(EINVAL)?, GFP_KERNEL)?;
             ucode.resize(aligned_code_size, 0, GFP_KERNEL)?;
 
             ucode
@@ -262,13 +220,15 @@ pub(crate) fn new(
             .checked_sub(ucode.len())
             .ok_or(EOVERFLOW)?;
 
+        let start_tag = u16::try_from(tlv.get_u32("STRT")?)?;
+
         Ok(Self {
             _firmware_dma: firmware_dma,
             ucode,
             dmem_desc,
             brom_params: firmware.brom_params(),
             imem_dst_start: u16::try_from(imem_dst_start)?,
-            start_tag: u16::try_from(desc.start_tag)?,
+            start_tag,
         })
     }
 
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-10 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-10 17:49 [PATCH 0/8] Transition Nova Core to TLV firmware images Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/8] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf() Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 18:03   ` Gary Guo
2026-06-10 18:24     ` Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 20:26       ` Gary Guo
2026-06-10 20:28         ` Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 21:46         ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/8] gpu: nova-core: add request_tlv to load TLV images Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 22:00   ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 3/8] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 22:37   ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 4/8] gpu: nova-core: transition booter_load to TLV images Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] gpu: nova-core: transition gsp " Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 17:49 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 7/8] gpu: nova-core: transition fsp " Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 17:49 ` [PATCH 8/8] gpu: nova-core: update firmware module info for " Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 18:16 ` [PATCH 0/8] Transition Nova Core to TLV firmware images John Hubbard
2026-06-10 18:19   ` Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 18:59     ` Timur Tabi
2026-06-10 21:21       ` John Hubbard
2026-06-10 21:43         ` Timur Tabi

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