Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] drm: nova: Add chipid enum to nova-drm UAPI
From: John Hubbard
Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 21:33:05 EST
On 7/29/26 1:24 AM, Alistair Popple wrote:
> On 2026-07-29 at 08:57 +1000, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
>> On Tue Jul 28, 2026 at 11:49 PM CEST, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> On 7/28/26 2:29 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>>>> On Tue Jul 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM CEST, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>> On 2026-07-26 at 01:23 +1000, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
>>>>>> On Thu Jul 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM CEST, Alistair Popple wrote:
...
>>> Just to orient myself, I'm assuming that by "opaque values", you mean using
>>> something that just counts up from, say, 1, instead of using real boot42
>>> values below, right?
>
> No. We'd just document these as a unique magic value that identifies the GPU
> chip rather than something that could be decoded into anything else.
>
OK, that sounds good to me. I was just trying to figure out what you
all meant by opaque in this case, and now I understand the idea.
thanks,
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John Hubbard