board_info(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 board_info — the vibe check for your GPU's physical body 🎀

okay so first things first, bestie: you're reading board_info from section 9 of the Kernel API Manual, and it's genuinely one of the shorter ones so we can absolutely get through this together 💖

✨ what even is this ✨

The amdgpu driver provides a sysfs API for giving board related information. That's it, that's the whole job — it's the driver's little "so what do you actually look like" moment 📋

Specifically, it gives you the form factor information in this exact format:

type : form factor
🫶 yes, with the spaces around the colon. Type it exactly like that, bestie, no cap.

🌸 possible form factor values 🌸

so when you go look at it, the form factor can be one of these three icons:

  • "cem" — PCIE CEM card 💳
  • "oam" — Open Compute Accelerator Module 🧩
  • "unknown" — Not known 🙈 (she's mysterious, she contains multitudes, we simply do not know her)

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

first up, the kernel file that actually does the thing:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c

and then, okay, buckle up buttercup, because this is the entire amdgpu friend group and every single one of them deserves a mention 😭👑

like I said. the whole group chat. go say hi 👋💜

and that's the page!! 🌈 this cutie lives down in ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, stamped from October 2026 — so you know it's fresh, periodt. mwah 💅✨🎀

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