i915_driver_early_probe(9)

💅 i915_driver_early_probe(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for i915_driver_early_probe(9) — she’s the early-probe girlie, and her whole thing is setting up the SW-only state before the driver goes anywhere near the actual device. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

i915_driver_early_probe — setup state not requiring device access. That’s the vibe: get the software bits ready first, no hardware touching yet. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int i915_driver_early_probe (struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev_priv — device private. That’s the device’s private struct, and yes, she is the main character here. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so what does she actually do? She initializes everything that counts as “SW-only” state — meaning state that does not require accessing the device, and does not require exposing the driver via kernel internal interfaces or userspace interfaces. 🫶

Example steps that belong in this early era:

• lock initialization 🔒
• system memory allocation 🧠
• setting up device specific attributes 🎀
• setting up function hooks not requiring accessing the device 🪝

no device access yet, bestie — that’s literally the whole point of the early-probe moment. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_driver.c

and the whole friend group:

• i915_driver_late_release(9)
• i915_driver_mmio_probe(9)
• i915_driver_mmio_release(9)
• i915_set_dma_info(9)
• i915_driver_hw_probe(9)
• i915_driver_hw_remove(9)
• i915_driver_register(9)
• i915_driver_unregister(9)
• i915_driver_probe(9)

xoxo, your Unix bestie 💖 — this page comes from source ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915, dated October 2026, and it’s the i915_driver_early_probe(9) manual page. go set up that SW-only state, slay ✨🫶