Re: [PATCH v11 00/12] gpu: nova-core: add Turing support

["Ewan Chorynski" <ewan.chorynski@ik.me>]

On Fri Mar 6, 2026 at 5:52 AM CET, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> This patchset adds the remaining support required for booting the GSP on
> Turing.
>
> We did a deep dive with Eliot looking for the reasons why some fields
> involved in the bootloader are ignored or used apparently
> inconsistently, and this results in a more documented flow and a few
> fixes. Apart from that, this series seems to be stabilizing and
> successfully probes my TU106:
>
>     NovaCore 0000:08:00.0: NVIDIA (Chipset: TU106, Architecture: Turing, Revision: a.1)
>     NovaCore 0000:08:00.0: GPU name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
>
> This series is based on `drm-rust-next`. A tree with all the patches is
> available at [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/Gnurou/linux/tree/b4/turing
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>
> Changes in v11:
> - Fix build error/warnings and rustfmt formatting.
> - Address incorrect IMEM section start offsets in FalconUCodeDescV2
>   and better document fields usage and unused fields.
> - Use `get`/`get_mut` instead of direct array indexing when accessing
>   firmware content.
> - Link to v10: https://patch.msgid.link/20260301-turing_prep-v10-0-dde5ee437c60@nvidia.com
>
> Changes in v10:
> - Store the firmwares into a regular KVec and move them into a DMA
>   object only when actually loading using DMA.
> - Use `try_update` when updating the `NV_PFALCON_FBIF_TRANSCFG` register
>   array as its index is not build-time proven to be valid.
> - Fix alignment issue when processing imem section of the FWSEC
>   bootloader (thanks Eliot!).
> - Link to v9: https://patch.msgid.link/20260212-turing_prep-v9-0-238520ad8799@nvidia.com
>
> Changes in v9:
> - Add a few preparatory patches to simplify the actual feature patches.
> - Use a wrapping type for the bootloader.
> - Simplify the falcon loading code and move the complexity to the
>   firmware types.
> - Add the generic bootloader files to `ModInfoBuilder`.
> - Link to v8: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260122222848.2555890-1-ttabi@nvidia.com/
>
> ---
> Alexandre Courbot (10):
>       gpu: nova-core: create falcon firmware DMA objects lazily
>       gpu: nova-core: falcon: add constant for memory block alignment
>       gpu: nova-core: falcon: rename load parameters to reflect DMA dependency
>       gpu: nova-core: falcon: remove FalconFirmware's dependency on FalconDmaLoadable
>       gpu: nova-core: move brom_params and boot_addr to FalconFirmware
>       gpu: nova-core: falcon: remove unwarranted safety check in dma_load
>       gpu: nova-core: firmware: add comments to justify v3 header values
>       gpu: nova-core: firmware: fix and explain v2 header offsets computations
>       gpu: nova-core: make Chipset::arch() const
>       gpu: nova-core: add gen_bootloader firmware to ModInfoBuilder
>
> Timur Tabi (2):
>       gpu: nova-core: add PIO support for loading firmware images
>       gpu: nova-core: use the Generic Bootloader to boot FWSEC on Turing
>
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs                    | 315 ++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/hal.rs                |   6 +-
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs                  | 107 ++++---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/booter.rs           |  65 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec.rs            | 129 +++-----
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs | 348 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs                       |   9 +-
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/boot.rs                  |  17 +-
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs                      |  30 ++
>  9 files changed, 820 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 15da5bc9f3adab7242867db0251fe451ac3ddb72
> change-id: 20260204-turing_prep-6f6f54fe1850
>
> Best regards,

Hi,

I just want to remind that there is still issues for some Turing cards
with the firmware used by Nova (570.144) and this patchset still suffer
from the issue.

I am not able to probe on my GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile :

[    2.246095] NovaCore 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA (Chipset: TU117, Architecture: Turing, Revision: a.1)
[    2.722681] NovaCore 0000:01:00.0: Booter-load failed with error 0x31

However nouveau does not probe either with this firmware so that's not
really this patchset fault.

Are there any plans to check this to enable support on all Turing cards ?

I already reported this error in the V4 patch [1] for context.

Feel free to ask me if you need additional tests or results.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/DFA1CUMND2ME.1D3PAJW641QHM@ik.me/T/#u

Regards,
Ewan