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
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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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