As I wrote about back in October, NVIDIA engineers have begun making Nova driver preparations for next-gen GPUs . In particular, the first step of plumbing "Boot42" support for hardware initialization as a new requirement for post-Blackwell GPUs.
That Boot42 support is now queued in the DRM-Next tree ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window opening in early December. This doesn't make the NVIDIA Rubin GPU support suddenly all start working nicely but is a step in that direction of next-gen GPU support. Nice to see it happening early and hopefully is an indication of NVIDIA planning to contribute more punctual new hardware support to the open-source Nova driver moving forward. At the same time the Nova driver isn't ready yet for end-users with prior generation GPU support still being brought up and not yet as full-featured as the existing Nouveau open-source driver.
A nice step in the right direction for open-source driver support from NVIDIA.
Another small but worthwhile change for Linux 6.19 is also providing clear error reports when the Nova driver hits an unsupported GPU.