[PATCH] gpu: nova-core: don't declare booter firmware for FSP chipsets

[PATCH] gpu: nova-core: don't declare booter firmware for FSP chipsets

[John Hubbard]

The module firmware table lists booter_load and booter_unload for every
chipset, but Hopper and Blackwell boot the GSP through FSP and never
load the SEC2 booter. Those modinfo entries point at firmware files that
are not shipped for FSP-based chipsets, so initramfs tooling looks for
images that are never used.

Declare the booter only for chipsets that boot via it, matching how the
FMC and FWSEC bootloader images are already gated on chipset
capabilities.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
index 366d3b76360e..977a306ed471 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs
@@ -427,19 +427,20 @@ const fn make_entry_chipset(self, chipset: gpu::Chipset) -> Self {
         let name = chipset.name();
 
         let this = self
-            .make_entry_file(name, "booter_load")
-            .make_entry_file(name, "booter_unload")
             .make_entry_file(name, "bootloader")
             .make_entry_file(name, "gsp");
 
-        let this = if chipset.needs_fwsec_bootloader() {
-            this.make_entry_file(name, "gen_bootloader")
+        // FSP-based chipsets (Hopper and later) boot the GSP via the FMC image
+        // loaded by FSP. Older chipsets use the SEC2 booter instead.
+        let this = if chipset.uses_fsp() {
+            this.make_entry_file(name, "fmc")
         } else {
-            this
+            this.make_entry_file(name, "booter_load")
+                .make_entry_file(name, "booter_unload")
         };
 
-        if chipset.uses_fsp() {
-            this.make_entry_file(name, "fmc")
+        if chipset.needs_fwsec_bootloader() {
+            this.make_entry_file(name, "gen_bootloader")
         } else {
             this
         }

base-commit: fea3a2dd7d3fc1936211ced5f84420e610435730
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: don't declare booter firmware for FSP chipsets

[Timur Tabi]

On Sun, 2026-06-07 at 16:05 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> The module firmware table lists booter_load and booter_unload for every
> chipset, but Hopper and Blackwell boot the GSP through FSP and never
> load the SEC2 booter. Those modinfo entries point at firmware files that
> are not shipped for FSP-based chipsets, so initramfs tooling looks for
> images that are never used.
> 
> Declare the booter only for chipsets that boot via it, matching how the
> FMC and FWSEC bootloader images are already gated on chipset
> capabilities.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>

Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: don't declare booter firmware for FSP chipsets

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Mon Jun 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM CEST, John Hubbard wrote:
> The module firmware table lists booter_load and booter_unload for every
> chipset, but Hopper and Blackwell boot the GSP through FSP and never
> load the SEC2 booter. Those modinfo entries point at firmware files that
> are not shipped for FSP-based chipsets, so initramfs tooling looks for
> images that are never used.
>
> Declare the booter only for chipsets that boot via it, matching how the
> FMC and FWSEC bootloader images are already gated on chipset
> capabilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

> +        // FSP-based chipsets (Hopper and later) boot the GSP via the FMC image
> +        // loaded by FSP. Older chipsets use the SEC2 booter instead.

NIT: This is slightly ambiguous, since despite technically being the same
generation, by architecture ID Ada numerically sits in between Hopper and
Blackwell, but does not use FSP.

Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: don't declare booter firmware for FSP chipsets

[Timur Tabi]

On Tue, 2026-06-09 at 00:57 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > +        // FSP-based chipsets (Hopper and later) boot the GSP via the FMC image
> > +        // loaded by FSP. Older chipsets use the SEC2 booter instead.
> 
> NIT: This is slightly ambiguous, since despite technically being the same
> generation, by architecture ID Ada numerically sits in between Hopper and
> Blackwell, but does not use FSP.

Maybe we should add a comment to the define_chipset! block in gpu.rs which clarifies that even
though GH100 has a lower chipid then AD102, we consider Hopper to be a newer architecture than Ada.