A few new dependencies are required to remove some of the TODO items:
- A way to safely convert from byte slices to types implementing
`FromBytes`,
- A way to obtain slices and write into a `CoherentAllocation`,
- Several improvements to the `register!()` macro,
- Alignment operations to powers of two, and an equivalent to the C
`fls`,
- Support for `xa_alloc` in the XAlloc bindings.
Some items have also become obsolete:
- The auxiliary bus abstractions have been implemented and are in use,
- The ELF utilities are not considered for being part of the core kernel
bindings anymore.
- VBIOS, falcon and GPU timer have been completed.
We now have quite a few TODO entries in the code, so annotate them with
a 4 letter code representing the corresponding task in `todo.rst`. This
allows to easily find which part of the code corresponds to a given
entry (and conversely).
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250619-nova-frts-v6-24-ecf41ef99252@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Upon reset, the GPU executes the GFW (GPU Firmware) in order to
initialize its base parameters such as clocks. The driver must ensure
that this step is completed before using the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250619-nova-frts-v6-12-ecf41ef99252@nvidia.com
[ Slightly adjust comments in wait_gfw_boot_completion(). - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
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>
