drm_get_edid(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 drm_get_edid 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the drm_get_edid(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes this is a kernel function, we're in the big leagues now, and no cap it's actually way simpler than it sounds 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

drm_get_edid — get EDID data, if available 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct edid * drm_get_edid (struct drm_connector *connector , struct i2c_adapter *adapter );

literally just two arguments, both pointers, and it hands you back a struct edid * — the way that signature ate 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • connector — the connector we're probing 👀 like, the thing on the graphics side we're trying to learn stuff about
  • adapter — the I2C adapter to use for DDC ⭐

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the vibe: we poke the given I2C channel (adapter) to grab the EDID data if possible — think of it as a little "hey bestie, u up? send ur display info" text 🥺

and if we do find it, we attach it to the connector. that's it. that's the whole function. main character energy but make it minimal 🧚

💜 RETURN 💜

A pointer to a valid EDID — or NULL if we couldn't find any 😭 (yes, you gotta check it, please check it, do it for me 🙈)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file you wanna look at lives right here: ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c 📁

and here's the whole friend group, all the siblings and cousins, every single one of them 🍓

and that's the whole page bestie!! ✨ this cutie lives in the ./drivers/gpu/drm directory (the <italic>Kernel API Manual</italic> corner of the universe, iykyk) and this version is dated October 2026 — go forth and probe that DDC, you're gonna slay 💅💖

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