Re: [PATCH 13/16] gpu: nova-core: Add support for VBIOS ucode extraction for boot

Danilo Krummrich
2025-04-24T20:18:00Z

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 03:54:48PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 05:02:58PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 10:52:42AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > > Hello, Danilo,
> > > Thanks for all the feedback. Due to the volume of feedback, I will respond
> > > incrementally in multiple emails so we can discuss as we go - hope that's Ok but
> > > let me know if that is annoying.
> >
> > That's perfectly fine, whatever works best for you. :)
> >
> > > On 4/23/2025 10:06 AM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > >
> > > >> +impl Vbios {
> > > >> + /// Read bytes from the ROM at the current end of the data vector
> > > >> + fn read_more(bar0: &Devres<Bar0>, data: &mut KVec<u8>, len: usize) -> Result {
> > > >> + let current_len = data.len();
> > > >> + let start = ROM_OFFSET + current_len;
> > > >> +
> > > >> + // Ensure length is a multiple of 4 for 32-bit reads
> > > >> + if len % core::mem::size_of::<u32>() != 0 {
> > > >> + pr_err!("VBIOS read length {} is not a multiple of 4\n", len);
> > > >
> > > > Please don't use any of the pr_*() print macros within a driver, use the dev_*()
> > > > ones instead.
> > >
> > > Ok I'll switch to this. One slight complication is I've to retrieve the 'dev'
> > > from the Bar0 and pass that along, but that should be doable.
> >
> > You can also pass the pci::Device reference to VBios::probe() directly.
>
>
> This turns out to be rather difficult to do in the whole vbios.rs because
> we'd have to them propogate pdev to various class methods which may print
> errors

Note that you can always create an ARef<pci::Device> instance from a
&pci::Device, which you can store temporarily if needed. Though I don't think
it's needed here.

> (some of which don't make sense to pass pdev to, like try_from()).

Yeah, it's indeed difficult with a TryFrom or From impl. I guess you're
referring to things like

impl TryFrom<&[u8]> for PcirStruct

and I actually think that's a bit of an abuse of the TryFrom trait. A &[u8]
isn't really something that is "natural" to convert to a PcirStruct.

Instead you should just move this code into a normal constructor, i.e.
PcirStruct::new(). Here you can then also pass a device reference to print
errors.

We should really stick to dev_*() print macros from within driver code.