nova NVIDIA GPU drivers¶
The nova driver project consists out of two separate drivers nova-core andnova-drm and intends to supersede the nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs based onthe GPU System Processor (GSP).
The following documents apply to both nova-core and nova-drm.
nova-core¶
The nova-core driver is the core driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on GSP. nova-core,as the 1st level driver, provides an abstraction around the GPUs hard- andfirmware interfaces providing a common base for 2nd level drivers, such as thevGPU manager VFIO driver and the nova-drm driver.