fsl_diu_get_pixel_format(9)

🌸 fsl_diu_get_pixel_format(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💅

okay so listen, this one lives in the Linux kernel API manual and it's called fsl_diu_get_pixel_format, and honestly? It's a little cutie with one job and it does it. Let's get into it ✨

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💖 NAME

fsl_diu_get_pixel_format — returns the pixel format for a given color depth 🎨

Like, you tell it how many bits per pixel, it tells you the format. Simple. Iconic. No notes.

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✨ SYNOPSIS

u32 fsl_diu_get_pixel_format (unsigned int bits_per_pixel );

Yup, that's the whole signature. Returns a u32, takes an unsigned int. Short and sweet, we love a low-commitment function 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• bits_per_pixel — the manual literally just says -- undescribed -- 💀 so like… the docs are not giving what they need to give here. It's an unsigned int and the name says it all: bits per pixel. That's the whole tea, fr fr.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

So the pixel format is a 32-bit value that decides which bits in each pixel get used for each color 🌈 That's it, that's the vibe — it's the little map that says "these bits are for red, these are for green, this is where blue hangs out."

And here's the key part, bestie: this is the default function used if the platform does not define its own version 👑 So if your platform is a main character and brings its own implementation, great, slay. If not? This one steps in. Reliable. Dependable. Carrying the team on its back 😭

No cap — it's the fallback, and the fallback is doing its job.

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🔥 SEE ALSO

• the Kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/fsl-diu-fb.c — that's where the whole story lives, go read it 💜
• struct fsl_diu_data(9)
• fsl_diu_name_to_port(9)

All three are right there in the same friend group, iykyk 🧚

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and that's the page!! periodt 💅

ok bye bestie, this was fsl_diu_get_pixel_format(9) from ./drivers/video/fbdev, dated October 2026 — mwah, go touch some registers 🌸💖