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Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:01:33 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
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On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 03:59:03PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM JST, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:58:02AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >> However, Nova also supports a couple of older chip generations that use
> >> the same GSP firmware -  it is for these that the ELF unpacking must
> >> occur in the kernel. IIUC this has to do with the capabilities of the
> >> microcontroller that ultimately does the loading (more capable RISC-V on
> >> Hopper+ vs. older and more limited Falcon).
> >
> > Why specifically does the kernel have to get involved here?  What
> > requires it to do it that userspace can not?
> 
> I don't know of a user-space tool that is readily available and could
> perform such extraction of the ELF content upon kernel request. Is there
> anything like this?

libelf provides you with the needed tools for this.

And you didn't answer my question.