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========== Guidelines

This documents contains the guidelines for nova-core. Additionally, all common guidelines of the Nova project do apply.

Driver API

One main purpose of nova-core is to implement the abstraction around the firmware interface of GSP and provide a firmware (version) independent API for 2nd level drivers, such as nova-drm or the vGPU manager VFIO driver.

Therefore, it is not permitted to leak firmware (version) specifics, through the driver API, to 2nd level drivers.

Acceptance Criteria

• To the extend possible, patches submitted to nova-core must be tested for regressions with all 2nd level drivers.