Linux 7.2 Seeds "Blackwell-Next": A Deep Dive into the nvgrace-gpu VFIO CXL DVSEC Change

Linux 7.2&rsquo;s VFIO pull request dropped a commit with a codename I hadn&rsquo;t seen before: Blackwell-Next . A Phoronix post brought this to my attention - Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA &ldquo;Blackwell-Next&rdquo; - which, on the face of it looks like a minor prep patch. It is — but it&rsquo;s also a clean window into where NVIDIA is taking its CPU-coherent GPU stack, how…