amdgpu_uvd_cs_packets(9)

💅 amdgpu_uvd_cs_packets — parse UVD packets

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for amdgpu_uvd_cs_packets(9), and ngl this one is short but she's important 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

amdgpu_uvd_cs_packets — parse UVD packets 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int amdgpu_uvd_cs_packets (struct amdgpu_uvd_cs_ctx *ctx , int
(*cb)(struct amdgpu_uvd_cs_ctx *ctx) );

like… that's the whole signature, she's giving "short and mysterious" 💅

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• ctx — the UVD parser context 👑 think of it as the little bag she carries all her state in.
• cb — callback function ✨ yes, a function pointer, she takes a struct amdgpu_uvd_cs_ctx *ctx and hands you back an int, no cap.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Parse the command stream packets. periodt 💀 that's literally the whole description, she said "I said what I said" and honestly? iconic.

so yeah — she walks the command stream, packet by packet, y'all 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_uvd.c — go read the source bestie, it's all there 📖
• amdgpu_uvd_entity_init(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_cs_pass1(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_cs_msg_decode(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_cs_msg(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_cs_pass2(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_cs_reg(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_ring_parse_cs(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_ring_test_ib(9)
• amdgpu_uvd_used_handles(9)

🫶 and that's the whole page!! this one comes to you straight from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, living in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go touch some registers bestie 💜🌸