dce_v8_0_ava...le_bandwidth(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ dce_v8_0_available_bandwidth ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one's a little kernel function from the AMDGPU display crew and honestly? she's lowkey iconic. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

dce_v8_0_available_bandwidth — literally just "get the min available bandwidth" 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

u32 dce_v8_0_available_bandwidth (struct dce8_wm_params *wm );

so she takes one pointer and hands you back a u32. clean, simple, main character energy ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • wm — the watermark calculation data 🧚 like, this is the whole vibe she needs to do her thing

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the tea: this function calculates the min available bandwidth used for display (CIK). periodt. 💜

it's used for display watermark bandwidth calculations — yes, that's a whole thing, iykyk 😭

and what does she return? the min available bandwidth in MBytes/s 🔥 that's it, that's the whole function, and she ate 💅

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

first up, the kernel file she lives in, no cap:

./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v8_0.c

and now the whole friend group 🫶 — these are all her siblings in (9), ok:

like, that's a lot of bandwidth besties, but every single one of them made the list so we're listing them all 💀

okay that's the whole page!! go read some source code, slay 💖

and finally, the cute lil sign-off: this one comes from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026, and it's filed under dce_v8_0_ava...le_bandwidth(9) 🌈 (yes the name is truncated with ..., don't come for her, that's just how the page header rolls 🙈). bye bestie, ily, drink water 🍓✨

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