i915_driver_probe(9)

💖 i915_driver_probe(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for i915_driver_probe(9) — it's giving setup chip and create an initial config, and honestly? iconic. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

i915_driver_probe — setup chip and create an initial config. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int i915_driver_probe (struct pci_dev *pdev , const struct pci_device_id *ent );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCI device, aka the main character here. 🖥️
• ent — the matching PCI ID entry. yep, that one. 🎯

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the driver probe routine has to do several things, and no, we cannot skip any of them:

• drive output discovery via intel_display_driver_probe 👀
• initialize the memory manager 🧠
• allocate initial config memory 🎀
• setup the DRM framebuffer with the allocated memory 🖼️

that's the whole checklist, bestie. lowkey important, highkey crucial. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_driver.c 📁
• i915_driver_early_probe(9)
• 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)

and that's the vibe check, bestie: the source/version line points at ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915 and October 2026, and the manual is i915_driver_probe(9) — slay, bye! 💖✨