Alexandre Courbot
2025-Jun-03 08:12 UTC
[PATCH v4 16/20] nova-core: Add support for VBIOS ucode extraction for boot
On Tue Jun 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM JST, Joel Fernandes wrote:> On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 03:33:56PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote: >> On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 03:45:11PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote: >> > +impl Vbios { >> >> <snip> >> >> > + pub(crate) fn fwsec_header(&self, pdev: &device::Device) -> Result<&FalconUCodeDescV3> { >> > + self.fwsec_image.fwsec_header(pdev) >> > + } >> > + >> > + pub(crate) fn fwsec_ucode(&self, pdev: &device::Device) -> Result<&[u8]> { >> > + self.fwsec_image.fwsec_ucode(pdev, self.fwsec_header(pdev)?) >> > + } >> > + >> > + pub(crate) fn fwsec_sigs(&self, pdev: &device::Device) -> Result<&[u8]> { >> > + self.fwsec_image.fwsec_sigs(pdev, self.fwsec_header(pdev)?) >> > + } >> >> Can't we just implement Deref here? Why do we need this indirection? > > We could, but it seems weird to deref a Vbios struct to an FwsecBiosImage > struct. Conceptually a Vbios is a collection of things and it could have > future extensions to its struct.Would it then make sense to make `FwSecBiosImage` public, add an `fn fwsec_image(&self) -> &FwSecBiosImage` method and have the caller call its methods directly (maybe renamed to `header`, `ucode` and `sigs`)?