convert_to_wide(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 convert_to_wide(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 and specifically to convert_to_wide — she's a little one but she matters, iykyk.

🌸 NAME 🌸

convert_to_wide — turns the return buffer addresses into kernel addresses. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void convert_to_wide (unsigned long *addr );

literally one parameter, no drama, no cap 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • addr — the return buffer from PDC. yes she's a pointer, yes you gotta hand her the real one 💅

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so here's the vibe 🌈 — sometimes the PDC address size and the kernel address size are not the same size (imagine that 🙈), and when that happens the addresses you get back from PDC are just... not in kernel-address form yet. this function is the glow-up ✨ — she takes the return buffer addresses you retrieved from PDC and converts them into kernel addresses. main character energy, honestly 👑.

if the sizes already match? then there's nothing to fix and she's not the one you need, bestie 💀. it's giving conditional relevance.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group shows up for this one — no gatekeeping here 🫶. also peep the kernel file ./arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c where all this lives 💖

like I said. the whole friend group 💀💖

and that's the page bestie, ily, go convert some addresses responsibly 🫶✨

sign-off szn 🎀: this icon lives over in ./arch/parisc/kernel, she's stamped October 2026, and yeah — she's still convert_to_wide(9), iconic as ever 👑💅

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