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Add the initial nova-core driver stub. nova-core is intended to serve as a common base for nova-drm (the corresponding DRM driver) and the vGPU manager VFIO driver, serving as a hard- and firmware abstraction layer for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs. The Nova project, including nova-core and nova-drm, in the long term, is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for all GSP-based GPUs. The motivation for both, starting a successor project for Nouveau and doing so using the Rust programming language, is documented in detail through a previous post on the mailing list [1], an LWN article [2] and a talk from LPC '24. In order to avoid the chicken and egg problem to require a user to upstream Rust abstractions, but at the same time require the Rust abstractions to implement the driver, nova-core kicks off as a driver stub and is subsequently developed upstream. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopeiae/T/#u [1] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/990736/ [2] Link: https://youtu.be/3Igmx28B3BQ?si=sBdSEer4tAPKGpOs [3] Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306222336.23482-5-dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
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config NOVA_CORE
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tristate "Nova Core GPU driver"
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depends on PCI
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depends on RUST
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depends on RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS
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default n
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help
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Choose this if you want to build the Nova Core driver for Nvidia
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GPUs based on the GPU System Processor (GSP). This is true for Turing
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and later GPUs.
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This driver is work in progress and may not be functional.
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If M is selected, the module will be called nova_core.
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