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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
To: <linux-firmware@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] nvidia: add acr/bl symlink for booting GSP-RM on GA100
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 19:22:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260404002248.2074815-1-ttabi@nvidia.com> (raw)

The Nvidia GA100 is a compute-only (no display hardware) Ampere GPU that
boots like a Turing (TU10x) GPU.  Consequently, it needs the same kind of
firmware images that Turing does.  Since Nouveau looks for all images
in GPU-specific directories, all of the firmware files that GA100 needs
must be reachable in the nvidia/ga100/ directory.

The ACR bootloader (acr/bl.bin, aka Generic Bootloader), is used normally
by Nouveau to support Turing and Ampere GPUs, both with and without
GSP-RM.  However, there is still significant code missing in Nouveau to
support non-GSP GA100.  Consequently, the firmware files that would
be used by Nouveau to support non-GSP GA100 are not included.

Since GA100 uses the same ACR bootloader as TU102, all that is needed is
a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
---
 WHENCE | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
index 655c4cdf..1a6b9fef 100644
--- a/WHENCE
+++ b/WHENCE
@@ -5894,6 +5894,7 @@ Link: nvidia/tu117/nvdec/scrubber.bin -> ../../tu116/nvdec/scrubber.bin
 Link: nvidia/tu117/sec2/desc.bin -> ../../tu116/sec2/desc.bin
 Link: nvidia/tu117/sec2/image.bin -> ../../tu116/sec2/image.bin
 Link: nvidia/tu117/sec2/sig.bin -> ../../tu116/sec2/sig.bin
+Link: nvidia/ga100/acr/bl.bin -> ../../tu102/acr/bl.bin
 File: nvidia/ga102/acr/ucode_ahesasc.bin
 File: nvidia/ga102/acr/ucode_asb.bin
 File: nvidia/ga102/acr/ucode_unload.bin

base-commit: 265c1591178cd347d27f9c95b43c9821ac8572f0
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-04  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-04  0:22 Timur Tabi [this message]
2026-04-04 19:26 ` [PATCH] nvidia: add acr/bl symlink for booting GSP-RM on GA100 Dmitry Baryshkov

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