[PATCH v2 0/2] gpu: nova: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs

John Hubbard
2025-10-28T02:39:42Z

Changes in v2:

1) Restored the Spec type, and used that to encapsulate the subsequent
boot42 enhancements. Thanks to Danilo Krummrich's feedback for that
improvement.

v1 cover letter:

NVIDIA GPUs are moving away from using NV_PMC_BOOT_0 to contain
architecture and revision details, and will instead use NV_PMC_BOOT_42
in the future. NV_PMC_BOOT_0 will be zeroed out.

Change the selection logic in Nova so that it will claim Turing and
later GPUs. This will work for the foreseeable future, without any
further code changes here, because all NVIDIA GPUs are considered, from
the oldest supported on Linux (NV04), through the future GPUs.

Add some comment documentation to explain, chronologically, how boot0
and boot42 change with the GPU eras, and how that affects the selection
logic.

Also, remove the Revision type, because Revision is no longer valuable
as a stand-alone type, because we only ever want the full information
that Spec provides.

This is based on today's drm-rust-next, which in turn is based on
Linux 6.18-rc2.

John Hubbard (2):
gpu: nova-core: merge the Revision type into the Spec type
gpu: nova-core: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs

drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs | 27 +++++++++
2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

base-commit: ca16b15e78f4dee1631c0a68693f5e7d9b3bb3ec
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2.51.1