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authorDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>2025-03-06 23:23:30 +0100
committerDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>2025-03-09 19:24:27 +0100
commit54e6baf123fde089cfa9f609b0b39b40abe41e94 (patch)
treee33cdbf61ecc85552edb2d114e2da110f10c99b1 /drivers/video
parent1d121a33ad50a3c61ce3a551a73ef7945c0b3494 (diff)
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gpu: nova-core: add initial driver stub
Add the initial nova-core driver stub. nova-core is intended to serve as a common base for nova-drm (the corresponding DRM driver) and the vGPU manager VFIO driver, serving as a hard- and firmware abstraction layer for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs. The Nova project, including nova-core and nova-drm, in the long term, is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for all GSP-based GPUs. The motivation for both, starting a successor project for Nouveau and doing so using the Rust programming language, is documented in detail through a previous post on the mailing list [1], an LWN article [2] and a talk from LPC '24. In order to avoid the chicken and egg problem to require a user to upstream Rust abstractions, but at the same time require the Rust abstractions to implement the driver, nova-core kicks off as a driver stub and is subsequently developed upstream. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopeiae/T/#u [1] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/990736/ [2] Link: https://youtu.be/3Igmx28B3BQ?si=sBdSEer4tAPKGpOs [3] Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306222336.23482-5-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/video/Kconfig1
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diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
index 44c9ef1435a2d..5df981920a945 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ source "drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig"
source "drivers/gpu/host1x/Kconfig"
source "drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig"
source "drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig"