Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] gpu: nova-core: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs

[John Hubbard]

On 10/29/25 6:01 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 17:35 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> >          // "Future" GPUs (some time after Rubin) will set `architecture_0`
> >          // to 0, and `architecture_1` to 1, and put the architecture details in
> >          // boot42 instead.
>
> I don't want to kick a dead horse here, but aren't the architecture details already in boot42
> for Turing?  I thought the whole point was that we don't need boot0 any more, and only Nouveau
> has to worry about boot0 vs boot42.

Yes, but someone can still plug in a pre-Turing GPU and try to
boot up with nova-core.ko on the system.

So it's important to avoid getting into trouble in that case.

thanks,
John Hubbard