On Thu Oct 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM CEST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On 10/8/2025 6:23 AM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> On Wed Oct 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM CEST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>>> The Nvidia GPU architecture is little-endian (including MMU structures in 
>>> VRAM).
>> 
>> Yes, I'm aware (and I'd assume that there is no reason to ever change that).
>> 
>> Just for the complete picture, there's also some endianness switch in the
>> NV_PMC_BOOT_1 register I think?
>
> You are referring to old GPUs. NV_PMC_BOOT_1 does not have endianness switch 
> for
> Turing and later.

Ok, then there's no point in considering big-endian CPUs.

> If we want to add a Kconfig patch enabling Nova only on x86/ARM, that'll be Ok
> with me.

I don't see why we'd constrain it to x86 and ARM, but we should indeed constrain
it to little-endian architectures.

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