[PATCH v8 00/16] gpu: nova-core: Boot GSP to RISC-V active

Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-08T02:51:00Z

On Sat Nov 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM JST, Alexandre Courbot
wrote:
> Hopefully a close-to-mergeable revision. Lots of documentation added,
> making the process of understanding the code hopefully easier, and I
> have finally given more attention to the top patches.
>
> This resulted in another refactor/simplification of the GSP command
> sending, moving it closer to Alistair's original idea of separating the
> commands from the objects representing them. This also means there is a
> single trait for commands, and a single method to send them. A couple
> Reviewed-by tags have been removed as that part of the code changed
> quite a bit.
>
> The message receive method in its current form won't be adequate as-is
> for the long-term, but it is fit to boot GSP.
>
> The hope is to merge this or a v9 before -rc6, so it can make it into
> 6.19.

... or maybe not, after looking more closely at Joel's follow-up series
it becomes clear that the message receive code should be improved. I'll
try to capture that in a v9, but maybe it will be too short a time to
get proper review before -rc6. It's not a big deal if this slips to the
next cycle though, as there are no outside dependencies on this series.