nova NVIDIA GPU drivers¶

The nova driver project consists out of two separate drivers nova-core and nova-drm and intends to supersede the nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on the GPU System Processor (GSP).

The following documents apply to both nova-core and nova-drm.

Guidelines

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- and firmware interfaces providing a common base for 2nd level drivers, such as the vGPU manager VFIO driver and the nova-drm driver.