[PATCH 00/27] gpu: nova-core: boot on the r000 GSP firmware
From: John Hubbard
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 23:52:35 EST
Nova-core boots the 570.144 GSP firmware today. This series moves the
driver to the r000 firmware ABI, which is stable across releases, so
firmware file names no longer carry a version number.
The actual firmware is not yet publicly available, so this series is for
early review, and should not be merged until the corresponding firmware
shows up.
Beyond drm-rust-next, the series sits on these patchsets:
* The GIN interrupt controller series, which needs Danilo Krummrich's
PCI and irq rework and Joel Fernandes' wait_for_completion_timeout().
* Eliot Courtney's NVKV encoder and decoder, which GSP_INIT is built on,
and his Vec::push_init.
I've created a branch that has everything, for reviewer convenience,
here:
https://github.com/johnhubbard/linux/tree/nova-core-run-on-r615-or-later-v1
Patch 25 makes the big switch from r570 to r000 in one commit. Before
that commit, everything works on r570. After that commit, only r000 is
supported. Patches 1 to 24 add the pieces the switch needs, and patches
26 and 27 delete and clean up after it.
Tested on TU117 (Turing, T400), GA104 (Ampere, RTX A4000) and GB202
(Blackwell, RTX PRO 6000), covering PCIe probe, chipset and GPU name
readback, the interrupt delivery self-test, and the KUnit suites.
Also, the vGPU team has tested an earlier, nearly identical version of
this patchset (minus the cleanups at the end), and it works there too.
John Hubbard (27):
gpu: nova-core: firmware: add r000 bindings
gpu: nova-core: extract radix3 page table into its own module
gpu: nova-core: set MCTP transport header version to 1
gpu: nova-core: add Falcon helpers for r000 LOAD_EXEC events
gpu: nova-core: zero-pad radix3 page table levels to page boundary
gpu: nova-core: distinguish async GSP RPC traffic in debug logs
gpu: nova-core: add optional ucodes firmware loading
gpu: nova-core: add LIBOS3 log buffers and state monitor buffer
gpu: nova-core: add build ID headers to debugfs log buffer dumps
gpu: nova-core: rename the FbRanges elf field to fw_image
gpu: nova-core: regs: add msgq v2 BAR0 register declarations
gpu: nova-core: gsp: add msgq v2 internals
gpu: nova-core: generalize allocate_command() for variable headers
gpu: nova-core: add GMC API message types
gpu: nova-core: add GMC send path
gpu: nova-core: add GMC transport receive path
gpu: nova-core: gsp: add GMC dispatch on receive
gpu: nova-core: separate the generic falcon bootloader from FWSEC
gpu: nova-core: handle the r000 load-and-execute HS binary event
gpu: nova-core: handle the r000 load-and-execute bootloader event
gpu: nova-core: gsp: add the GMC boot event dispatcher
gpu: nova-core: gsp: add the GSP_INIT request builder
gpu: nova-core: gsp: send GSP_INIT and decode its reply
gpu: nova-core: gsp: pass the remaining log buffers to GSP-RM
gpu: nova-core: switch to the r000 GSP firmware
gpu: nova-core: gsp: remove the retired system-info and static-info
RPCs
gpu: nova-core: firmware: delete the r570 bindings
drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs | 152 +++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/fb.rs | 18 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/fb/hal/gb100.rs | 25 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/fb/hal/gb202.rs | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs | 44 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/bindata.rs | 37 +
.../nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs | 112 +--
.../gpu/nova-core/firmware/gen_bootloader.rs | 215 +++++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/gsp.rs | 124 +--
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/radix3.rs | 145 ++++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/tlv.rs | 56 ++
drivers/gpu/nova-core/fsp.rs | 3 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 23 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp.rs | 284 ++++++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/boot.rs | 549 +++++++++++-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs | 792 ++++++++++++------
.../gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq/continuation.rs | 1 +
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/commands.rs | 293 +++++--
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs | 740 ++++++++--------
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw/commands.rs | 200 ++---
.../gsp/fw/{r570_144.rs => r000_00.rs} | 2 +-
.../gsp/fw/{r570_144 => r000_00}/bindings.rs | 548 ++++++++----
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/hal.rs | 22 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/hal/tu102.rs | 18 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/regs.rs | 30 +
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/sequencer.rs | 379 ---------
drivers/gpu/nova-core/irq/gsp.rs | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/mctp.rs | 18 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/regs.rs | 8 +-
30 files changed, 3131 insertions(+), 1716 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/bindata.rs
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/gen_bootloader.rs
create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/radix3.rs
rename drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw/{r570_144.rs => r000_00.rs} (95%)
rename drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw/{r570_144 => r000_00}/bindings.rs (73%)
delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/sequencer.rs
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