hl_release_firmware(9)

💖 hl_release_firmware(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes we're doing kernel docs today and yes it's gonna slay. This one's hl_release_firmware, and honestly? It's giving "small but mighty" 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hl_release_firmware — release FW 🦋

like, you know that firmware you grabbed earlier? yeah. this is the part where you let it go. release. periodt. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void hl_release_firmware (const struct firmware *fw );

one line. one function. zero drama (mostly) 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fw — the fw descriptor 💖 this is the little handle to the firmware thing, and it's what you're handing back. that's it. that's the whole argument list, bestie.

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⭐ NOTE ⭐

okay so this is the important bit 👑 — this here <hotpink>inline function</hotpink> was added specifically to serve as a comprehensive mirror for the hl_request_fw function. so like, hl_request_fw gets you the firmware, and this one is its mirror-image counterpart. comprehensive mirror energy 🪞✨ iykyk.

no cap, it's an inline function — that's literally what the note says, not me being extra 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay this list is long and i am obsessed 😭 so buckle up, we're going through the whole friend group 🌈

Kernel file here, in case you wanna go read the source like the main character you are:

./drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/firmware_if.c

and now, the whole squad 💜:

• hl_fw_version_cmp(9)
• extract_u32_until_given_char(9)
• hl_get_sw_major_minor_subminor(9)
• hl_get_preboot_major_minor(9)
• hl_fw_copy_fw_to_device(9)
• hl_fw_copy_msg_to_device(9)
• hl_fw_load_fw_to_device(9)
• hl_fw_send_cpu_message(9)
• hl_fw_preboot_update_state(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_report_error_status(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_send_cmd(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_extract_fw_response(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_wait_for_status(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_send_clear_cmd(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_send_protocol_cmd(9)
• hl_fw_compat_crc32(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_validate_memory_bound(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_validate_descriptor(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_read_and_validate_descriptor(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_request_descriptor(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_read_device_fw_version(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_copy_image(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_copy_msg(9)
• hl_fw_boot_fit_update_state(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_load_image(9)
• hl_fw_linux_update_state(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_send_msg(9)
• hl_fw_dynamic_init_cpu(9)
• hl_fw_static_init_cpu(9)
• hl_fw_init_cpu(9)

thirty-one besties plus the source file. ate 💅🔥 go click through them and have the best time, fr fr.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 it lives in ./drivers/accel/habanalabs/common, it's dated October 2026, and it's brought to you by the Kernel API Manual — ty for reading, you're iconic, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️✨