NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 7, 2022 6:37 UTC (Fri) by himi (subscriber, #340)
In reply to: NVIDIA and nouveau by JoeBuck
Parent article: NVIDIA and nouveau

> Please pardon me if I'm interpreting your question wrong

I suspect the point of the question was to allow bringing up the card with that (hopefully small) default firmware, and then later on load the big blob from storage somewhere other than the initramfs and complete the bring up. It seems like a sensible option, though I'm not sure NVidia would want to bother with the work required to support it.

NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 7, 2022 7:47 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

One approach would "simply" be for the driver to inherit whatever state has been configured by the firmware, and then defer full local init until firmware is available. It doesn't handle cases where the card hasn't been initialised before Linux starts, but that seems like a pretty niche scenario for desktop-oriented distros.