i915_gpu_raise(9)

💅 i915_gpu_raise(9) — the kernel API glow-up you didn't know you needed 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to i915_gpu_raise(9), a manual page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the actual name, we're being fancy today ✨). This is the little function that literally just... lifts the ceiling on your GPU's frequency. That's the whole vibe. Let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

i915_gpu_raise — raise the GPU frequency limit 🚀

Like, that's it. That's the function. It raises the limit. Iconic behaviour, no notes.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool i915_gpu_raise (void );

returns a bool, takes nothing. clean. minimal. main character energy tbh 👑

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• void — no arguments, bestie. not a single one. she takes zero input and she serves 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: this function raises the limit — the GPU frequency limit, specifically — because IPS indicates we have thermal headroom. That's it. That's the whole lore. We've got room to breathe thermally, so she goes up 🔥

no cap, that is literally the entire documented description, and I refuse to invent more because I'm not about to make stuff up about a kernel driver. iykyk 🧚

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_rps.c — the actual source file, go read it if you're feeling brave 🙈
• gen6_rps_get_freq_caps(9)
• intel_rps_get_max_raw_freq(9)
• intel_rps_get_min_raw_freq(9)
• i915_read_mch_val(9)
• i915_gpu_lower(9) — her opposite, the one who lowers things 💀
• i915_gpu_busy(9)
• i915_gpu_turbo_disable(9)

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🫶 friendly reminder: this is a kernel API page, so every one of those references is literally one backtick away from being useful. click through them, bestie, don't just vibe on the main page.

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🌈 the cute sign-off 🌈

and that's the whole page, babes 💜 this little slice of documentation lives in ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt and it's dated October 2026 — so yes, she's from the future, and she's still just raising a frequency limit. periodt. 🎀⭐