f_extend(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

hii bestie 💖 welcome to f_extend(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes, that f_extend(9), and it's giving “tiny translator, huge responsibilities” energy.

f_extend — Convert PDC addresses to kernel addresses. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned long f_extend (unsigned long address );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• address — Address returned from PDC. that's the input, bestie, straight from PDC and ready for its glow-up 🦋

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

okay so the whole vibe is this: when the PDC address size and the kernel address size are different, f_extend is the function used to convert PDC addresses into kernel addresses. it's literally the translator between those two address worlds, no cap 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c is the home base, and the whole squad is right here — every single one, bestie, we do not skip the entourage 💖

• convert_to_wide(9)
• set_firmware_width(9)
• pdc_emergency_unlock(9)
• pdc_add_valid(9)
• pdc_instr(9)
• pdc_chassis_info(9)
• pdc_pat_chassis_send_log(9)
• pdc_chassis_disp(9)
• __pdc_cpu_rendezvous(9)
• pdc_cpu_rendezvous_lock(9)
• pdc_cpu_rendezvous_unlock(9)
• pdc_pat_get_PDC_entrypoint(9)
• pdc_chassis_warn(9)
• pdc_coproc_cfg(9)
• pdc_iodc_read(9)
• pdc_system_map_find_mods(9)
• pdc_system_map_find_addrs(9)
• pdc_model_info(9)
• pdc_model_sysmodel(9)
• pdc_model_versions(9)
• pdc_model_cpuid(9)
• pdc_model_capabilities(9)
• pdc_model_platform_info(9)
• pdc_cache_info(9)
• pdc_spaceid_bits(9)
• pdc_btlb_info(9)
• pdc_mem_map_hpa(9)
• pdc_lan_station_id(9)
• pdc_stable_read(9)
• pdc_stable_write(9)
• pdc_stable_get_size(9)
• pdc_stable_verify_contents(9)
• pdc_stable_initialize(9)
• pdc_get_initiator(9)
• pdc_pci_irt_size(9)
• pdc_pci_irt(9)
• pdc_pci_config_read(9)
• pdc_pci_config_write(9)
• pdc_tod_read(9)
• pdc_pim_toc11(9)
• pdc_pim_toc20(9)
• pdc_tod_set(9)
• pdc_iodc_print(9)
• pdc_iodc_getc(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_get_number(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_module(9)
• pdc_pat_cell_info(9)
• pdc_pat_cpu_get_number(9)
• pdc_pat_get_irt_size(9)
• pdc_pat_get_irt(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_addr_map(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_pdc_revisions(9)
• pdc_pat_pd_get_platform_counter(9)
• pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_read(9)
• pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_write(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_pdt_info(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_pdt_cell_info(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_read_cell_pdt(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_read_pd_pdt(9)
• pdc_pat_mem_get_dimm_phys_location(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie. mwah 💋 this f_extend(9) moment comes from ./arch/parisc/kernel, dated October 2026 — slay and bye 🫶