X86_MATCH_VFM(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 X86_MATCH_VFM(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, you cracked open the Kernel API Manual, and you found the page for X86_MATCH_VFM(9) — the macro that matches a CPU by its encoded vendor/family/model. it's giving cpu-matching royalty 👑 and honestly it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

X86_MATCH_VFM — match encoded vendor/family/model 💖

like literally that's the whole vibe. you give it a vfm, it matches. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

X86_MATCH_VFM (vfm , data );

that's it. that's the whole function signature. clean, simple, ate. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vfm — the encoded value, bestie: 8 bits each for vendor, family, and model. yes, eight bits apiece, packed together like a little friendship bracelet of CPU identity 🌈.
  • data — driver specific data, or NULL if you've got nothing to say (valid, honestly 🙈). heads up tho: the internal storage format is unsigned long, so whatever you supply — value, pointer, whatever — it gets cast to unsigned long internally. so like, don't be surprised, iykyk ✨.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole fam is here and they're all so valid 💜 — kernel file ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h, plus:

go read them, they're all main character energy in their own way 🧚‍♀️

fr fr bestie, this is the whole page — nothing more, nothing less. every detail stays, the vibe is just better now 💀✨

mwah 💋 this page came from ./arch/x86/include/asm and it's dated October 2026 — you're welcome, from the Kernel API Manual girlies 🎀💖 see u in the next manpage, ily!! 🫶

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