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2014 Sep 26
3
NVIDIA Falcon Microprocessor Security
Hi, all.
Below is a link to a brief document describing some changes in NVIDIA
Falcon processors ("fuc", in Nouveau-speak, IIUC) that happened in
Maxwell: certain aspects of the chip will only be available to Falcon
firmware images signed by NVIDIA. So far, the set of restricted things
is pretty small, but I expect this list will slowly grow over future
hardware generations.
2014 Sep 27
0
NVIDIA Falcon Microprocessor Security
...simplest thing that could be done to ease
this and not enforce some kind of API, is to version the firmware
images in some way, and we can support multiple paths if/when we need
to.
One immediate question I have is that given that FECS/GPCCS pretty
much have zero permissions already outside of the NV_PGRAPH range,
what restrictions are in place there that would prevent us from
continuing to use our own ucode on these falcons?
>
> If NVIDIA just released firmware binaries along side each NVIDIA GPU driver
> release, would it be reasonable for Nouveau to pick and choose which
> firmware you...