firmware: add NVIDIA persistence mode hook #140
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Works for 'setup' and the recently added 'hotplug'. Takes care of loading the modules in the zone and enabling persistence mode so the GPU stays awake. Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@edera.dev>
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This is necessary for a couple of reasons:
--privilegedone first and tickling the GPU (e.g. withnvidia-smi)The current workflow for launching a GPU zone is a little painful:
--privilegedworkload withnvidia-smiin it (e.g.nvidia/cuda:13.1.0-devel-ubuntu24.04)nvidia-smiin workloadThis change adds a hook that runs
nvidia-smi -pm 1in the zone before workloads launch to eliminate the middle three steps above.