diff --git a/userspace/units/init/nvgpu-init.c b/userspace/units/init/nvgpu-init.c
index 45772950a..10c413c28 100644
--- a/userspace/units/init/nvgpu-init.c
+++ b/userspace/units/init/nvgpu-init.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -415,6 +415,11 @@ int test_hal_init(struct unit_module *m,
 		return UNIT_FAIL;
 	}
 
+	if (strcmp(g->name, "gv11b") != 0) {
+		unit_err(m, "%s: initialized wrong HAL!\n", __func__);
+		return UNIT_FAIL;
+	}
+
 	/* Branch test for check if already inited the hal */
 	if (nvgpu_detect_chip(g) != 0) {
 		unit_err(m, "%s: failed to init HAL\n", __func__);