Re: [PATCH v3 12/16] gpu: nova-core: use projection for PFALCON and PFALCON2 registers

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

On Fri Aug 28, 2026 at 10:04 AM JST, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Wed Aug 19, 2026 at 8:09 PM JST, Gary Guo wrote:
>> Add fixed size region types `PFalconRegisters` and `PFalcon2Registers` and
>> update PFALCON and PFALCON2 registers to be fixed register on them and not
>> relative registers on `NovaRegisters`.
>>
>> Update `Falcon` struct to store projected views when constructing and
>> access with `self.pfalcon` and `self.pfalcon2`.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs                    | 157 +++++++++------------
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/fsp.rs                |  63 +++++----
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/gsp.rs                |  51 ++++---
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/hal/ga102.rs          |  62 ++++----
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/hal/tu102.rs          |   9 +-
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/sec2.rs               |  37 +++--
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs |  18 +--
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/hal/tu102.rs             |   7 +-
>>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs                      |  92 ++++++------
>>  9 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
>> index 65cb12d26e2b..119d305e2ea3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
>> @@ -14,13 +14,12 @@
>>      io::{
>>          io_project,
>>          poll::read_poll_timeout,
>> -        register::{
>> -            RegisterBase,
>> -            WithBase, //
>> -        },
>> +        register::Array,
>>          Io,
>> +        Mmio, //
>>      },
>>      prelude::*,
>> +    sizes::SZ_4K,
>>      time::Delta,
>>  };
>>  
>> @@ -165,18 +164,22 @@ pub(crate) enum FalconFbifMemType with From<Bounded<u32, 1>> {
>>      }
>>  }
>>  
>> -/// Type used to represent the `PFALCON` registers address base for a given falcon engine.
>> -pub(crate) struct PFalconBase(());
>> +/// Type used to represent the `PFALCON` registers.
>> +#[repr(align(4))]
>> +#[derive(FromBytes, IntoBytes)]
>> +pub(crate) struct PFalconRegisters([u8; SZ_4K]);
>>  
>> -/// Type used to represent the `PFALCON2` registers address base for a given falcon engine.
>> -pub(crate) struct PFalcon2Base(());
>> +/// Type used to represent the `PFALCON2` registers.
>> +#[repr(align(4))]
>> +#[derive(FromBytes, IntoBytes)]
>> +pub(crate) struct PFalcon2Registers([u8; SZ_4K]);

Actually one more nit: while `SZ_4K` is correct, these should ideally be
named constants instead of being hardcoded.