Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: require little endian
From: Timur Tabi
Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 14:04:51 EST
On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 12:56 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Mon Apr 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM CEST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > Nouveau does not do this, and no other GPU driver afaics either.
>
> Nouveau has nvkm_device_endianness() [1], which it configured before everything
> else is done.
>
> I assume that's not an option for later GPUs?
>
> [1]
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19.11/source/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c#L3111
Pascal is the last GPU to have NV_PMC_BOOT_1_ENDIAN0. If nvkm_device_endianness() is called on
Turing, then that might be a bug.