e1000_erase_...bank_ich8lan(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_erase_flash_bank_ich8lan — the manual page bestie

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about e1000_erase_flash_bank_ich8lan. no cap, it does exactly one thing and it does it slayfully: it wipes a whole 4k bank of NVM. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_erase_flash_bank_ich8lan — literally just "Erase a bank (4k) from NVM". that's the whole vibe. one job, iconic. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s32 e1000_erase_flash_bank_ich8lan (struct e1000_hw *hw , u32 bank );

returns an s32, takes your hw pointer and the bank number, and goes to town. that's it, that's the function 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. you know the one. the big struct. the main character of every e1000e function honestly 👑
  • bank — 0 for the first bank, 1 for the second bank, etc. zero-indexed bestie, so don't come at it with a 1 expecting the first one, you will be off by one 😭

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So it erases the bank you specified. each bank is a 4k block — as in 4096 bytes of flash, gone, poof, bye 💀

banks are 0 based (already said it, saying it again, it matters). and the mapping is:

bank N is at 4096 * N + flash_reg_addr.

so like, bank 0 starts at flash_reg_addr, bank 1 starts at 4096 + flash_reg_addr, bank 2 at 8192 + flash_reg_addr, you get the picture, the math is mathing 🧮✨

ngl that's the entire description. she's concise. she's efficient. we respect her.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long long, but every single one of these is fam and they all live in the same file, so buckle up buttercup 💜

The kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c

like, ninety-something functions. she knows everybody. the social butterfly of ich8lan.c fr fr 🦋💖

and that's the page!! sign-off time: this lil beauty comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... and it's dated October 2026 🌸 go erase a bank responsibly bestie, and remember — banks are 0 based, iykyk 💅✨

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