Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] gpu: nova-core: make Architecture behave as a u8 type

[Timur Tabi]

On Fri, 2025-11-07 at 20:39 -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
>  /// Enum representation of the GPU generation.
> -#[derive(fmt::Debug)]
> +#[derive(fmt::Debug, Default, Copy, Clone)]
> +#[repr(u8)]
>  pub(crate) enum Architecture {
> +    #[default]
>      Turing = 0x16,
>      Ampere = 0x17,
>      Ada = 0x19,
> @@ -142,6 +144,13 @@ fn try_from(value: u8) -> Result<Self> {
>      }
>  }

Does it make sense to designate a default Architecture?  Turing is not a fallback for Ampere --
you can't boot an Ampere with Turing's HAL.  Also, we don't even make Turing cards any more, so
over time, Turing will be less and less common.