Re: [PATCH 3/6] gpu: nova-core: Blackwell: basic GPU identification

[John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>]

On 11/18/25 7:15 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:46, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
...
>>> Maybe let's just do the long lists of chipsets for now...?
>>
>> Yeah, I've hit this issue as well. The compiler might remove that
>> limitation in the future, or maybe we can craft a `chipset_range!()`
>> macro that hides the messy casting, but this exhaustive listing also has
>> the benefit of forcing us to consider every critical site whenever we
>> support a new chipset so I'm actually not too bothered by it.
> 
> I wrote some macros in my nova-core-experiments, had
> chipset_before/after/range I think
> 

aha, I was afraid someone was going to say "macros" out loud, at some
point. And now you've gone and done it. :)

Well, I think we probably want:

a) The ability to clearly specify a chipset range, and

b) For extra credit, maybe: also be able to specify entire GPU
architectures, and architecture ranges.

...again, without too much extraneous noise at the call sites: the goal is
to read it easily:

     GA102..=GA104 | Architecture::Blackwell


for example. Macros are going to require that to be less clean, but
let me poke around and see.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard