ENUM DRM_VMW_HANDLE_TYPE(9)

💖 enum drm_vmw_handle_type(9) 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the star of the show is enum drm_vmw_handle_type — yes it's a whole enum, yes it's about handle types for ref ioctls, and yes we're gonna get through this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

enum drm_vmw_handle_type — the handle type for ref ioctls, periodt 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's literally the whole shape of it:

enum drm_vmw_handle_type {
    DRM_VMW_HANDLE_LEGACY ,
    DRM_VMW_HANDLE_PRIME

};

two constants, no extras, no drama. iconic minimalism honestly 🎀

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🦋 Constants 🦋

• DRM_VMW_HANDLE_LEGACY — okay so the docs literally say -- undescribed -- here 😭 not me exposing the manpage like this, but fr fr that's all it gives us. it's a constant, it exists, it's DRM_VMW_HANDLE_LEGACY, and nobody wrote a description for it. we respect the mystery 🙈
• DRM_VMW_HANDLE_PRIME — and same energy: -- undescribed -- 💀 it's the PRIME-flavored sibling and that's genuinely the entirety of what's documented. no cap.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, and they ALL get named, no skipping, we don't do that here 🌈

Kernel file ./include/uapi/drm/vmwgfx_drm.h, plus:

• struct drm_vmw_getparam_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_size(9)
• union drm_vmw_surface_create_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_fence_rep(9)
• struct drm_vmw_bo_rep(9)
• union drm_vmw_alloc_bo_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_control_stream_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_cursor_bypass_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_fence_wait_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_fence_event_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_shader_create_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_gb_surface_create_req(9)
• struct drm_vmw_gb_surface_create_rep(9)
• union drm_vmw_gb_surface_create_arg(9)
• union drm_vmw_gb_surface_reference_arg(9)
• enum drm_vmw_synccpu_op(9)
• struct drm_vmw_synccpu_arg(9)
• union drm_vmw_extended_context_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_handle_close_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_gb_surface_create_ext_req(9)
• union drm_vmw_gb_surface_create_ext_arg(9)
• union drm_vmw_gb_surface_reference_ext_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_msg_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_mksstat_add_arg(9)
• struct drm_vmw_mksstat_remove_arg(9)

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ngl the -- undescribed -- bits are the actual docs, not me being lazy. i would never 💀

okay that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 this one came from ./include/uapi/drm, dated October 2026, and it's the enum drm_vmw_handle_type(9) page — go read the SEE ALSOs bestie, they're waiting 🧚💜