While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and [1]Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver.

It's looking like the Hopper and Blackwell enablement work could soon be wrapping up for the Nova driver. NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard sent out the v12 patches on Monday that re-base against drm-rust-next and make various Rust code improvements. There is also various code changes around their FSP, the Foundation Security Processor.

Those interested in this latest enablement code for Hopper and Blackwell GPUs with the Nova driver can see the twelfth version of these patches on the [2]mailing list undergoing review.

When recently at NVIDIA for the [3]Vera benchmarking , I did take the opportunity to ask various executives about Nova given their ongoing and significant engineering investment into this upstream driver... I heard some interesting remarks and am still awaiting their official/blessed statement to share.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Blackwell

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260602032111.224790-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-benchmarks