From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Timur Tabi" <ttabi@nvidia.com>,
"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
"Edwin Peer" <epeer@nvidia.com>, "Zhi Wang" <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 6/6] gpu: nova-core: provide a clear error report for unsupported GPUs
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:41:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251114024109.465136-7-jhubbard@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251114024109.465136-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Pass in a PCI device to Spec::new(), and provide a Display
implementation for boot42, in order to provide a clear, concise report
of what happened: the driver read NV_PMC_BOOT42, and found that the GPU
is not supported.
For very old GPUs (older than Fermi), the driver still returns ENOTSUPP,
but it does so without a driver-specific dmesg report. That is exactly
appropriate, because if such a GPU is installed, it can only be
supported by Nouveau. And if so, the user is not helped by additional
error messages from Nova.
Here's the full dmesg output for a Blackwell (not yet supported) GPU:
NovaCore 0000:01:00.0: Probe Nova Core GPU driver.
NovaCore 0000:01:00.0: Unsupported chipset: boot42 = 0x1b2a1000 (architecture 0x1b, implementation 0x2)
NovaCore 0000:01:00.0: probe with driver NovaCore failed with error -524
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 9 ++++++---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
index 9bc94811741c..7f8a5c1ed9f1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ pub(crate) struct Spec {
}
impl Spec {
- fn new(bar: &Bar0) -> Result<Spec> {
+ fn new(dev: &device::Device, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<Spec> {
// Some brief notes about boot0 and boot42, in chronological order:
//
// NV04 through NV50:
@@ -198,7 +198,10 @@ fn new(bar: &Bar0) -> Result<Spec> {
return Err(ENOTSUPP);
}
- Spec::try_from(regs::NV_PMC_BOOT_42::read(bar))
+ let boot42 = regs::NV_PMC_BOOT_42::read(bar);
+ Spec::try_from(boot42).inspect_err(|_| {
+ dev_err!(dev, "Unsupported chipset: {}\n", boot42);
+ })
}
}
@@ -250,7 +253,7 @@ pub(crate) fn new<'a>(
bar: &'a Bar0,
) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> + 'a {
try_pin_init!(Self {
- spec: Spec::new(bar).inspect(|spec| {
+ spec: Spec::new(pdev.as_ref(), bar).inspect(|spec| {
dev_info!(pdev.as_ref(),"NVIDIA ({})\n", spec);
})?,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
index 81097e83c276..d6da8bc2e242 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ pub(crate) fn chipset(self) -> Result<Chipset> {
.and_then(Chipset::try_from)
}
+ /// Returns the raw architecture value from the register.
+ fn architecture_raw(self) -> u8 {
+ ((self.0 >> Self::ARCHITECTURE_RANGE.start()) & ((1 << Self::ARCHITECTURE_RANGE.len()) - 1))
+ as u8
+ }
+
/// Returns the revision information of the chip.
pub(crate) fn revision(self) -> Revision {
Revision {
@@ -77,6 +83,18 @@ pub(crate) fn revision(self) -> Revision {
}
}
+impl kernel::fmt::Display for NV_PMC_BOOT_42 {
+ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut kernel::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> kernel::fmt::Result {
+ write!(
+ f,
+ "boot42 = 0x{:08x} (architecture 0x{:x}, implementation 0x{:x})",
+ self.0,
+ self.architecture_raw(),
+ self.implementation()
+ )
+ }
+}
+
// PBUS
register!(NV_PBUS_SW_SCRATCH @ 0x00001400[64] {});
--
2.51.2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-14 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-14 2:41 [PATCH v8 0/6] gpu: nova: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs John Hubbard
2025-11-14 2:41 ` [PATCH v8 1/6] gpu: nova-core: implement Display for Spec John Hubbard
2025-11-14 15:18 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-14 2:41 ` [PATCH v8 2/6] gpu: nova-core: prepare Spec and Revision types for boot0/boot42 John Hubbard
2025-11-14 14:37 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-15 0:49 ` John Hubbard
2025-11-14 2:41 ` [PATCH v8 3/6] gpu: nova-core: make Architecture behave as a u8 type John Hubbard
2025-11-14 2:41 ` [PATCH v8 4/6] gpu: nova-core: use ENOTSUPP for unsupported GPUs, in all cases John Hubbard
2025-11-14 15:03 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-14 23:41 ` John Hubbard
2025-11-14 2:41 ` [PATCH v8 5/6] gpu: nova-core: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs John Hubbard
2025-11-14 14:01 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-15 0:10 ` John Hubbard
2025-11-14 2:41 ` John Hubbard [this message]
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