VFIO
Linux 7.2 Seeds "Blackwell-Next": A Deep Dive into the nvgrace-gpu VFIO CXL DVSEC Change
Linux 7.2’s VFIO pull request dropped a commit with a codename I hadn’t seen before: Blackwell-Next. A Phoronix post brought this to my attention - Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA “Blackwell-Next” - which, on the face of it looks like a minor prep patch. It is — but it’s also a clean window into where NVIDIA is taking its CPU-coherent GPU stack, how CXL is quietly becoming the standard signaling interface for next-generation accelerators, and what that means if you’re building infrastructure or tooling on top of these platforms.
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