Nova GPU Workshop: Nova: status update + 2026 plans
summary
Nova is a Rust-based upstream kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs that grows from 387 lines in 6.15 to ~10,000 lines on master in under a year; the GPU System Processor (GSP is booting and running) for Mia and ADA is functional, with patches queued for Turing, Hopper, and Blackwell. Roadmap aim is feature parity with the existing NVIDIA kernel driver, focus areas include firmware bindings, vGPU and user-space submission/compute APIs, plus core-kernel interactions (locking, lifetimes, memory management).
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