[PATCH 3/6] nova-core: docs: Document vbios layout

Timur Tabi ttabi at nvidia.com
Wed Apr 23 23:12:57 UTC 2025


On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 18:53 -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> +This document describes the layout of the VBIOS image which is a series of concatenated
> +images in the ROM of the GPU. The VBIOS is mirrored onto the BAR 0 space and is read
> +by both Boot ROM firmware (also known as IFR or init-from-rom firmware) on the GPU to
> +boot strap various microcontrollers (PMU, SEC, GSP) with critical initialization before
> +the driver loads, as well as by the nova-core driver in the kernel to boot the GSP.

You might want to add a link to this page:

https://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/BIOS-Information-Table/1/BIOS-Information-Table.html


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