e1000_acqui..._80003es2lan(9)

💖 NAME 💖

e1000_acquire_nvm_80003es2lan — okay so bestie, this one acquires rights to access NVM ✨ that's literally the whole vibe check, it gets you the keys to the NVM 🔑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s32 e1000_acquire_nvm_80003es2lan (struct e1000_hw *hw );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — a pointer to the HW structure 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument, she's low maintenance like that

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what this icon actually does: it acquires the semaphore so you can access the EEPROM 💅 no cap, that's the whole thing. It's giving "gotta get the lock before you touch the memory" main character energy ✨

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💅 SEE ALSO 💅

First up, the kernel file she lives in 🦋:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/80003es2lan.c

And then the whole friend group, fr fr — every single one of these, no skips 👑

• e1000_init_phy_params_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_init_nvm_params_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_init_mac_params_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_acquire_phy_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_release_phy_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_acquire_mac_csr_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_release_mac_csr_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_release_nvm_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_acquire_swfw_sync_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_release_swfw_sync_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_read_phy_reg_gg82563_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_write_phy_reg_gg82563_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_write_nvm_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_get_cfg_done_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_phy_force_speed_duplex_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_get_cable_length_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_get_link_up_info_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_reset_hw_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_init_hw_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_initialize_hw_bits_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_copper_link_setup_gg82563_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_setup_copper_link_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_cfg_on_link_up_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_cfg_kmrn_10_100_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_cfg_kmrn_1000_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_read_kmrn_reg_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_write_kmrn_reg_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_read_mac_addr_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_power_down_phy_copper_80003es2lan(9)
• e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_80003es2lan(9)

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✨ one last thing bestie ✨ this page comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... and it's dated October 2026, filed under e1000_acqui..._80003es2lan(9) — mwah, go read the EEPROM, ily 💜🎀