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gpu: nova-core: use the Generic Bootloader to boot FWSEC on Turing
authorTimur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
Fri, 6 Mar 2026 04:52:49 +0000 (13:52 +0900)
committerAlexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Mon, 9 Mar 2026 01:39:13 +0000 (10:39 +0900)
commit50b3e0c7c82f32e6ac3ead30f0e0ba96d36a4ff6
tree0cf16be9aa99a61cd4110f8d9ed2af16486fdc96
parente92241683a2a28ec224f2b99fcac56f2c46750ab
gpu: nova-core: use the Generic Bootloader to boot FWSEC on Turing

On Turing and GA100, a new firmware image called the Generic Bootloader
(gen_bootloader) must be used to load FWSEC into Falcon memory.  The
driver loads the generic bootloader into Falcon IMEM, passes a
descriptor that points to FWSEC using DMEM, and then boots the generic
bootloader.  The bootloader will then load FWSEC into IMEM and boot it.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
Co-developed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-turing_prep-v11-12-8f0042c5d026@nvidia.com
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec.rs
drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware/fwsec/bootloader.rs [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/boot.rs