cik_init_microcode(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

Hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual (section 9, we're fancy here 💅). Today's main character is:

cik_init_microcode — load ucode images from disk 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int cik_init_microcode (struct radeon_device *rdev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • rdev — a radeon_device pointer bestie, that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: you use the firmware interface to load the ucode images into the driver — not loaded into hw, okay, let's be so clear about that 🙈 — and that's literally it, that's the job.

Returns 0 on success, and an error on failure 😭. No in-between, no "it's complicated", just slay or don't ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c 👑

And now, the extended universe, the whole friend group, present and accounted for 💜:

ngl bestie, that's a lot of cross-references, but you asked for the whole squad and I delivered 💀🫶

Okay bye ily, this page lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon, dated October 2026, and it's filed under cik_init_microcode(9) — go be iconic with it 💅✨🎀🦋

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