From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>
To: "gary@garyguo.net" <gary@garyguo.net>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"dakr@kernel.org" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"aliceryhl@google.com" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"airlied@gmail.com" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"simona@ffwll.ch" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"lossin@kernel.org" <lossin@kernel.org>
Cc: "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev" <nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org" <rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Extract usable FB region from GSP
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:38:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b561f47d18f48ac2c00153f83d5baa9637f4a552.camel@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DJ5AQWO0KMIZ.1EUA18XBRIJC3@garyguo.net>
On Wed, 2026-06-10 at 11:27 +0100, Gary Guo wrote:
> > Does it just essentially require a FB to be present? What would happen to GPUs
> > without display support like RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition?
>
> Actually looks like FB in Nova just means "VRAM" and not actually "Framebuffer".
> Is this documented somewhere or am I just incapable of finding it?
For some reason, internally we tend to use the term "framebuffer" instead of "vram", so that
leaks into our code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-09 8:03 [PATCH 0/4] gpu: nova-core: obtain and display VRAM amount Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-09 8:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] gpu: nova-core: move GSP unload state to a pinned Gpu subobject Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 3:52 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-06-10 11:18 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 12:30 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-06-10 10:14 ` Gary Guo
2026-06-10 11:21 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-09 8:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] gpu: nova-core: move GPU static information acquisition to a GSP method Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 3:39 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-06-10 10:16 ` Gary Guo
2026-06-17 6:22 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-09 8:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Extract usable FB region from GSP Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 3:35 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-06-17 6:20 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 10:23 ` Gary Guo
2026-06-10 10:27 ` Gary Guo
2026-06-10 15:38 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2026-06-17 6:20 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-09 8:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Expose total physical VRAM end from FB region info Alexandre Courbot
2026-06-10 3:37 ` Eliot Courtney
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=b561f47d18f48ac2c00153f83d5baa9637f4a552.camel@nvidia.com \
--to=ttabi@nvidia.com \
--cc=acourbot@nvidia.com \
--cc=airlied@gmail.com \
--cc=aliceryhl@google.com \
--cc=dakr@kernel.org \
--cc=dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org \
--cc=gary@garyguo.net \
--cc=jhubbard@nvidia.com \
--cc=joelagnelf@nvidia.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lossin@kernel.org \
--cc=nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev \
--cc=rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=simona@ffwll.ch \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome