Re: [PATCH v8 11/25] gpu: nova-core: mm: Use usable VRAM region for buddy allocator

From: Alexandre Courbot

Date: Sun Mar 01 2026 - 22:09:28 EST


On Sun Mar 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM JST, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
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> This is all the better as `usable_vram` is added as an `Option` in
> `FbLayout`, not because `None` is a valid state but because `FbLayout`
> is already constructed by the time we obtain `usable_vram`. So `None` is
> just a value that tells the caller "please return an error". Now we can
> remove the option altogether, drop patch 5, and have `boot` return the
> error for us if `usable_vram` cannot be obtained.

Correction: patches 3 and 5 won't be needed anymore and can be dropped,
it seems.