[PATCH 0/5] gpu: nova-core: leverage FromBytes for VBIOS structures

[Alexandre Courbot]

This series spawns from the discussion in [1], where it was noticed that
several structures of the VBIOS could just be read using `FromBytes`
instead of being built manually.

While implementing it, I also noticed that we were repeating the
following pattern quite a bit in the code:

    slice
        .get(..size_of::<TargetType>())
        .and_then(TargetType::from_bytes_copy)

... which begs for dedicated methods doing this in the `FromBytes`
trait. This is what the first patch does, taking inspiration from a
similar feature in the `zerocopy` crate.

The remaining patches leverage these new methods to simplify the VBIOS
code a bit, accordingly.

If patch 1 is deemed a valid idea, I hope we can merge it into the DRM
tree along with the rest of this series.

The base for this work is `drm-rust-next`, with [2] applied.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/DDTRW1P2I4PB.10ZTZDY95JBC5@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20251026-nova-as-v1-1-60c78726462d@xxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Alexandre Courbot (5):
      rust: transmute: add `from_bytes_prefix` family of methods
      gpu: nova-core: vbios: use FromBytes for PmuLookupTable header
      gpu: nova-core: vbios: use FromBytes for PcirStruct
      gpu: nova-core: vbios: use FromBytes for BitHeader
      gpu: nova-core: vbios: use FromBytes for NpdeStruct

 drivers/gpu/nova-core/vbios.rs | 137 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 rust/kernel/transmute.rs       |  60 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 639291d7c30cec5cf0d9a79371021c2e4404cfc9
change-id: 20251028-nova-vbios-frombytes-eb0cbb6a2f11

Best regards,
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Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>