Re: [PATCH v11 00/12] gpu: nova-core: add Turing support

[Timur Tabi]

On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 22:00 +0100, Ewan Chorynski wrote:
> On Mon Mar 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM CET, John Hubbard wrote:
> > On 3/9/26 1:18 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 13:04 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I have that exact card available, so I'll give this a quick test and see
> > > > what's missing or wrong, now that Alex has pushed the entire Turing support
> > > > set up to drm-rust-next.
> > > 
> > > The TU117 is technically a mobile chip, and its VBIOS is different.  My initial version of the
> > > Turing patches would "ignore" the problematic VBIOS sections, so perhaps this changed.
> > > 
> > 
> > No repro on the latest drm-rust-next branch:
> 
> I guess I may have an issue with my linux-firmware. I have no stable
> right now so I can't download the latest one but I'll try
> soon. On which commit on linux-firmware are you ?

There's only one version of linux-firmware that works with Nova, and you didn't have it, it wouldn't
boot at all.

Although, now that I think about it, I'm assuming that on Turing, if gen_bootloader is absent,
NovaCore will not even try to boot.  That file was added recently and is missing in most distros
today.

/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gen_bootloader-570.144.bin  (or its zstd compressed version)

If you have this file, then you have everything you need to boot NovaCore on Turing.