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Message-ID: <fcd4a013-0eb7-4a3a-b916-1dc6c444225d@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:26:29 +0200
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] gpu: nova-core: Boot GSP to RISC-V active

On 9/30/25 3:16 PM, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Changes since v2:
> 
> The main change since v2 has been to make all firmware bindings
> completely opaque. It has been made clear this is a pre-requisite for
> this series to progress upstream as it should make supporting
> different firmware versions easier in future.
> 
> Overall the extra constructors and accessors add a couple of hundred
> lines of code and a few extra unsafe statements.

A bit of additional code is expected, but it's not clear to me why this would
require additional unsafe blocks.

Can you please elaborate?