[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 14/19] drm/i915/oprom: Basic sanitization

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:57:33PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>>On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com> wrote:
>>> From: Anshuman Gupta <anshuman.gupta at intel.com>
>>>
>>> Sanitize OPROM header, CPD signature and OPROM PCI version.
>>> OPROM_HEADER, EXPANSION_ROM_HEADER and OPROM_MEU_BLOB structures
>>> and PCI struct offsets are provided by GSC counterparts.
>>> These are yet to be Documented in B.Spec.
>>> After successful sanitization, extract VBT from opregion
>>> image.
>>
>>So I don't understand what the point is with two consecutive patches
>>where the latter rewrites a lot of the former.
>
> I actually wonder what's the point of this. Getting it from spi is
> already the fallback and looks much more complex. Yes, it's pretty
> detailed and document the format pretty well, but it still looks more
> complex than the initial code. Do you see additional benefit in this
> one?

The commit message doesn't really explain much. Anshuman?

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center