e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan 💖

okay so bestie, gather round — this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's honestly such a little icon. it's e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan, and yes the name is a mouthful but we're gonna get through it together 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan — Read word(s) from the NVM 💅

like… that's it. that's the whole job. it reads words out of the NVM. no cap. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s32 e1000_read_nvm_ich8lan (struct e1000_hw *hw , u16 offset , u16 words
, u16 *data );

look at her. four params, returns an s32. she's compact. she's focused. she's giving "i know exactly what i'm doing" main character energy 👑

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. this is your hardware bestie, the whole context of the party. you don't go anywhere without hw 🫶
  • offset — the offset (in bytes) of the word(s) to read. yes, bytes. yes, even though everything else here talks in words. iykyk 😭
  • words — size of data to read in words. how many words are we grabbing, bestie? that's this one.
  • data — pointer to the word(s) to read at offset. this is where the good stuff lands. data is doing the heavy lifting of receiving 💖

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Reads a word(s) from the NVM using the flash access registers. ✨

that's the whole vibe fr fr — it goes through the flash access registers to pull your word(s) out of the NVM. no detours, no drama, just straight to the registers 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie. sit down. there are a lot of relatives. this function is part of one giant ich8lan/pchlan family and the whole guest list is here, no one left out 💀

and the kernel file itself: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c — that's home 🏠

the iconic crew:

like i said. huge family. every single one of them is invited 🧚‍♀️

ok and finally, the cute little sign-off moment 🎀 — this page is from the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, and it comes to you straight out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... (the path gets a lil truncated in the footer, but she's still iconic). mwah 💋 slay, go read some NVM words bestie 💜🌈
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