[PATCH 0/3] gpu: nova-core: unload extras for Hopper/Blackwell

From: Eliot Courtney

Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 10:20:20 EST


This has a few patches for what I had to do to get driver unload/reload
working for Hopper/Blackwell. This depends on John's Blackwell series
and Alex's unload series, although neither apply cleanly on latest
drm-rust-next for me so this might not apply as is, but hopefully can be
integrated into the other series or something as needed.

It's just two steps:
1. Make sure FSP didn't have any old message lying around that it hadn't
consumed, which I observed sometimes happened to me on unload/reload.
2. Wait for GSP falcon to halt.

Signed-off-by: Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Eliot Courtney (3):
gpu: nova-core: fsp: wait to consume message before sending another
gpu: nova-core: add Architecture::uses_sec2() helper
gpu: nova-core: add non-sec2 unload path

drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon/fsp.rs | 16 ++++++++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 7 ++++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/boot.rs | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
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Best regards,
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Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@xxxxxxxxxx>