Re: [PATCH] rust: add basic ELF sections parser

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 03:56:37PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri May 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM JST, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:58:02AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >> > But for now, doing it in generic code, that all systems end up loading,
> >> > yet very very very few would ever actually use makes no sense.  And
> >> > adding it to a driver also doesn't make sense as you can define your
> >> > user/kernel api now, it's not set in stone at all given that there is no
> >> > existing code merged.
> >> 
> >> Eschewing this from the driver would require duplicating the GSP
> >> firmware (a healthy 26MB compressed binary) in linux-firmware to provide
> >> both ELF and non-ELF versions of the same code, and also store the other
> >> ELF sections as their own files. I expect this to be a hard sell for
> >> linux-firmware.
> >
> > Why would the linux-firmware people care about the size of firmware
> > blobs being given to them?  That's the whole reason for their existance,
> > to put them in one place instead of having to download them from random
> > locations on the internet, or to have them in the kernel tree itself.
> >
> > It's already 300MB or so for the whole project, what's 26MB more?
> 
> Roughtly 1/10th of the current total size as avoidable overhead. ^_^;

It's just storage on a disk, that's not an issue.  Storage sizes just
increased by more than that in the days we've taken on this email
thread :)