From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpu: nova: require little endian
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:09:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8b881a8-d62b-4afa-9f2b-eac1c4e34651@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407-fix-kconfig-v2-1-6b4fb06c690c@nvidia.com>
On 4/6/26 8:59 PM, Eliot Courtney wrote:
> The driver already assumes little endian in a lot of locations. For
> example, all the code that reads RPCs out of the command queue just
> directly interprets the bytes.
>
> Make this explicit in Kconfig.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
> ---
> The current code assumes little endian in a bunch of places. I think we
> should either explicitly decide to be generic on endianness or explicitly
> decide not to - having some handling sprinkled around in various
> locations seems confusing to me.
>
> I believe that currently e.g. `RUST` transitively depends on
> !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN, so this is more about making the decision explicit for
> nova-core rather than fixing any kind of hole.
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Also add to nova-drm (Thanks Danilo)
> - Did not take Reviewed-by + Acked-by because commit changed
> substantively
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406-fix-kconfig-v1-1-8f634499f7f0@nvidia.com
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Kconfig
> index 3e637ad7b5ba..a2028b8539d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/Kconfig
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config DRM_NOVA
> depends on DRM=y
> depends on PCI
> depends on RUST
> + depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> select AUXILIARY_BUS
> select NOVA_CORE
> default n
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> index a4f2380654e2..d8456f8eaa05 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config NOVA_CORE
> depends on 64BIT
> depends on PCI
> depends on RUST
> + depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> select AUXILIARY_BUS
> select RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS
> default n
>
> ---
> base-commit: a7a080bb4236ebe577b6776d940d1717912ff6dd
> change-id: 20260406-fix-kconfig-3a059f622697
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-07 3:59 [PATCH v2] gpu: nova: require little endian Eliot Courtney
2026-04-07 5:09 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2026-04-07 11:57 ` Gary Guo
2026-04-07 14:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-07 14:22 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-08 6:47 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-08 7:12 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-29 21:50 ` Danilo Krummrich
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