diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drivers.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drivers.rst
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--- a/Documentation/gpu/drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drivers.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ GPU Driver Documentation
    panfrost
    panthor
    zynqmp
+   nova/index
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/nova/core/guidelines.rst b/Documentation/gpu/nova/core/guidelines.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
+
+==========
+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.
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/nova/core/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/nova/core/todo.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..87a43302f03e
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+++ b/Documentation/gpu/nova/core/todo.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,382 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
+
+=========
+Task List
+=========
+
+Tasks may have the following fields:
+
+- ``Complexity``: Describes the required familiarity with Rust and / or the
+  corresponding kernel APIs or subsystems. There are four different complexities,
+  ``Beginner``, ``Intermediate``, ``Advanced`` and ``Expert``.
+- ``Reference``: References to other tasks.
+- ``Link``: Links to external resources.
+- ``Contact``: The person that can be contacted for further information about
+  the task.
+
+Enablement (Rust)
+=================
+
+Tasks that are not directly related to nova-core, but are preconditions in terms
+of required APIs.
+
+FromPrimitive API
+-----------------
+
+Sometimes the need arises to convert a number to a value of an enum or a
+structure.
+
+A good example from nova-core would be the ``Chipset`` enum type, which defines
+the value ``AD102``. When probing the GPU the value ``0x192`` can be read from a
+certain register indication the chipset AD102. Hence, the enum value ``AD102``
+should be derived from the number ``0x192``. Currently, nova-core uses a custom
+implementation (``Chipset::from_u32`` for this.
+
+Instead, it would be desirable to have something like the ``FromPrimitive``
+trait [1] from the num crate.
+
+Having this generalization also helps with implementing a generic macro that
+automatically generates the corresponding mappings between a value and a number.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Link: https://docs.rs/num/latest/num/trait.FromPrimitive.html
+
+Delay / Sleep abstractions
+--------------------------
+
+Rust abstractions for the kernel's delay() and sleep() functions.
+
+There is some ongoing work from FUJITA Tomonori [1], which has not seen any updates
+since Oct. 24.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241001112512.4861-2-fujita.tomonori@gmail.com/ [1]
+
+IRQ abstractions
+----------------
+
+Rust abstractions for IRQ handling.
+
+There is active ongoing work from Daniel Almeida [1] for the "core" abstractions
+to request IRQs.
+
+Besides optional review and testing work, the required ``pci::Device`` code
+around those core abstractions needs to be worked out.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250122163932.46697-1-daniel.almeida@collabora.com/ [1]
+| Contact: Daniel Almeida
+
+Page abstraction for foreign pages
+----------------------------------
+
+Rust abstractions for pages not created by the Rust page abstraction without
+direct ownership.
+
+There is active onging work from Abdiel Janulgue [1].
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+| Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241119112408.779243-1-abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com/ [1]
+
+Scatterlist / sg_table abstractions
+-----------------------------------
+
+Rust abstractions for scatterlist / sg_table.
+
+There is preceding work from Abdiel Janulgue, which hasn't made it to the
+mailing list yet.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Abdiel Janulgue
+
+ELF utils
+---------
+
+Rust implementation of ELF header representation to retrieve section header
+tables, names, and data from an ELF-formatted images.
+
+There is preceding work from Abdiel Janulgue, which hasn't made it to the
+mailing list yet.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Contact: Abdiel Janulgue
+
+PCI MISC APIs
+-------------
+
+Extend the existing PCI device / driver abstractions by SR-IOV, config space,
+capability, MSI API abstractions.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+
+Auxiliary bus abstractions
+--------------------------
+
+Rust abstraction for the auxiliary bus APIs.
+
+This is needed to connect nova-core to the nova-drm driver.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+
+Debugfs abstractions
+--------------------
+
+Rust abstraction for debugfs APIs.
+
+| Reference: Export GSP log buffers
+| Complexity: Beginner
+
+Vec extensions
+--------------
+
+Implement ``Vec::truncate`` and ``Vec::resize``.
+
+Currently this is used for some experimental code to parse the vBIOS.
+
+| Reference vBIOS support
+| Complexity: Beginner
+
+GPU (general)
+=============
+
+Parse firmware headers
+----------------------
+
+Parse ELF headers from the firmware files loaded from the filesystem.
+
+| Reference: ELF utils
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Contact: Abdiel Janulgue
+
+Build radix3 page table
+-----------------------
+
+Build the radix3 page table to map the firmware.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Abdiel Janulgue
+
+vBIOS support
+-------------
+
+Parse the vBIOS and probe the structures required for driver initialization.
+
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+| Reference: Vec extensions
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+
+Initial Devinit support
+-----------------------
+
+Implement BIOS Device Initialization, i.e. memory sizing, waiting, PLL
+configuration.
+
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+| Complexity: Beginner
+
+Boot Falcon controller
+----------------------
+
+Infrastructure to load and execute falcon (sec2) firmware images; handle the
+GSP falcon processor and fwsec loading.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+GPU Timer support
+-----------------
+
+Support for the GPU's internal timer peripheral.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+MMU / PT management
+-------------------
+
+Work out the architecture for MMU / page table management.
+
+We need to consider that nova-drm will need rather fine-grained control,
+especially in terms of locking, in order to be able to implement asynchronous
+Vulkan queues.
+
+While generally sharing the corresponding code is desirable, it needs to be
+evaluated how (and if at all) sharing the corresponding code is expedient.
+
+| Complexity: Expert
+
+VRAM memory allocator
+---------------------
+
+Investigate options for a VRAM memory allocator.
+
+Some possible options:
+  - Rust abstractions for
+    - RB tree (interval tree) / drm_mm
+    - maple_tree
+  - native Rust collections
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+
+Instance Memory
+---------------
+
+Implement support for instmem (bar2) used to store page tables.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+GPU System Processor (GSP)
+==========================
+
+Export GSP log buffers
+----------------------
+
+Recent patches from Timur Tabi [1] added support to expose GSP-RM log buffers
+(even after failure to probe the driver) through debugfs.
+
+This is also an interesting feature for nova-core, especially in the early days.
+
+| Link: https://lore.kernel.org/nouveau/20241030202952.694055-2-ttabi@nvidia.com/ [1]
+| Reference: Debugfs abstractions
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+
+GSP firmware abstraction
+------------------------
+
+The GSP-RM firmware API is unstable and may incompatibly change from version to
+version, in terms of data structures and semantics.
+
+This problem is one of the big motivations for using Rust for nova-core, since
+it turns out that Rust's procedural macro feature provides a rather elegant way
+to address this issue:
+
+1. generate Rust structures from the C headers in a separate namespace per version
+2. build abstraction structures (within a generic namespace) that implement the
+   firmware interfaces; annotate the differences in implementation with version
+   identifiers
+3. use a procedural macro to generate the actual per version implementation out
+   of this abstraction
+4. instantiate the correct version type one on runtime (can be sure that all
+   have the same interface because it's defined by a common trait)
+
+There is a PoC implementation of this pattern, in the context of the nova-core
+PoC driver.
+
+This task aims at refining the feature and ideally generalize it, to be usable
+by other drivers as well.
+
+| Complexity: Expert
+
+GSP message queue
+-----------------
+
+Implement low level GSP message queue (command, status) for communication
+between the kernel driver and GSP.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+Bootstrap GSP
+-------------
+
+Call the boot firmware to boot the GSP processor; execute initial control
+messages.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+Client / Device APIs
+--------------------
+
+Implement the GSP message interface for client / device allocation and the
+corresponding client and device allocation APIs.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+Bar PDE handling
+----------------
+
+Synchronize page table handling for BARs between the kernel driver and GSP.
+
+| Complexity: Beginner
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+FIFO engine
+-----------
+
+Implement support for the FIFO engine, i.e. the corresponding GSP message
+interface and provide an API for chid allocation and channel handling.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+GR engine
+---------
+
+Implement support for the graphics engine, i.e. the corresponding GSP message
+interface and provide an API for (golden) context creation and promotion.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+CE engine
+---------
+
+Implement support for the copy engine, i.e. the corresponding GSP message
+interface.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+VFN IRQ controller
+------------------
+
+Support for the VFN interrupt controller.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+| Contact: Dave Airlie
+
+External APIs
+=============
+
+nova-core base API
+------------------
+
+Work out the common pieces of the API to connect 2nd level drivers, i.e. vGPU
+manager and nova-drm.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+
+vGPU manager API
+----------------
+
+Work out the API parts required by the vGPU manager, which are not covered by
+the base API.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
+
+nova-core C API
+---------------
+
+Implement a C wrapper for the APIs required by the vGPU manager driver.
+
+| Complexity: Intermediate
+
+Testing
+=======
+
+CI pipeline
+-----------
+
+Investigate option for continuous integration testing.
+
+This can go from as simple as running KUnit tests over running (graphics) CTS to
+booting up (multiple) guest VMs to test VFIO use-cases.
+
+It might also be worth to consider the introduction of a new test suite directly
+sitting on top of the uAPI for more targeted testing and debugging. There may be
+options for collaboration / shared code with the Mesa project.
+
+| Complexity: Advanced
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/nova/guidelines.rst b/Documentation/gpu/nova/guidelines.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..28a959f51c2c
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@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
+
+==========
+Guidelines
+==========
+
+This document describes the general project guidelines that apply to nova-core
+and nova-drm.
+
+Language
+========
+
+The Nova project uses the Rust programming language. In this context, the
+following rules apply.
+
+- Unless technically necessary otherwise (e.g. uAPI), any driver code is written
+  in Rust.
+
+- Direct FFI calls to C kernel APIs must be avoided; instead C kernel APIs
+  should be accessed through shared Rust abstractions.
+
+- Unless technically necessary, unsafe Rust code must be avoided. In case of
+  technical necessity, unsafe code should be isolated in a separate component
+  providing a safe API for other driver code to use.
+
+Style
+-----
+
+All rules of the Rust for Linux project as documented in
+:doc:`../../rust/coding-guidelines` apply. Additionally, the following rules
+apply.
+
+- Code must be formatted with the ``rustfmt`` make target.
+
+- Code submitted for inclusion into the Nova driver project must pass the Rust
+  linter, which can be enabled with ``CLIPPY=1``.
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+The availability of proper documentation is essential in terms of scalability,
+accessability for new contributors and maintainability of a project in general,
+but especially for a driver running as complex hardware as Nova is targeting.
+
+Hence, adding documentation of any kind is very much encouraged by the project.
+
+Besides that, there are some minimum requirements.
+
+- Every non-private structure needs at least a brief doc comment explaining the
+  semantical sense of the structure, as well as potential locking and lifetime
+  requirements. It is encouraged to have the same minimum documentation for
+  non-trivial private structures.
+
+- uAPIs must be fully documented with kernel-doc comments; additionally, the
+  semantical behavior must be explained including potential special or corner
+  cases.
+
+- The APIs connecting the 1st level driver (nova-core) with 2nd level drivers
+  must be fully documented. This includes doc comments, potential locking and
+  lifetime requirements, as well as example code if applicable.
+
+- Abbreviations must be explained when introduced; terminology must be uniquely
+  defined.
+
+- Register addresses, layouts, shift values and masks must be defined properly;
+  unless obvious, the semantical sense must be documented. This only applies if
+  the author is able to obtain the corresponding information.
+
+Acceptance Criteria
+===================
+
+- Patches must only be applied if reviewed by at least one other person on the
+  mailing list; this also applies for maintainers.
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/nova/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/nova/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2701b3f4af35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/nova/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
+
+=======================
+nova NVIDIA GPU drivers
+=======================
+
+The nova driver project consists out of two separate drivers nova-core and
+nova-drm and intends to supersede the nouveau driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on
+the GPU System Processor (GSP).
+
+The following documents apply to both nova-core and nova-drm.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :titlesonly:
+
+   guidelines
+
+nova-core
+=========
+
+The nova-core driver is the core driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on GSP. nova-core,
+as the 1st level driver, provides an abstraction around the GPUs hard- and
+firmware interfaces providing a common base for 2nd level drivers, such as the
+vGPU manager VFIO driver and the nova-drm driver.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :titlesonly:
+
+   core/guidelines
+   core/todo
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f7ddca7de0ef..07455c945834 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7454,6 +7454,7 @@ Q:	https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/nouveau/
 B:	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova/-/issues
 C:	irc://irc.oftc.net/nouveau
 T:	git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova.git nova-next
+F:	Documentation/gpu/nova/
 F:	drivers/gpu/nova-core/
 
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