ice_get_inactive_orom_ver(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ice_get_inactive_orom_ver(9) — the function is ice_get_inactive_orom_ver, and its whole thing is Read Option ROM version from the inactive bank. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_get_inactive_orom_ver (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_orom_info
*orom );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• hw — pointer to the HW structure. literally handing over the hardware vibes.
• orom — storage for Option ROM version information. this is where the tea gets stored.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Reads the Option ROM version and security revision data for the inactive section of flash. Used to access version data for a pending update that has not yet been activated.

so like… if there’s an update waiting in the wings and it has not been activated yet, this is how you peek at its version data. no cap. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c

and the whole friend group:

• ice_aq_read_nvm(9)
• ice_read_flat_nvm(9)
• ice_aq_update_nvm(9)
• ice_aq_erase_nvm(9)
• ice_read_sr_word(9)
• ice_acquire_nvm(9)
• ice_release_nvm(9)
• ice_get_flash_bank_offset(9)
• ice_read_flash_module(9)
• ice_read_nvm_module(9)
• ice_read_nvm_sr_copy(9)
• ice_read_netlist_module(9)
• ice_get_pfa_module_tlv(9)
• ice_read_pba_string(9)
• ice_get_nvm_ver_info(9)
• ice_get_inactive_nvm_ver(9)
• ice_get_orom_civd_data(9)
• ice_get_orom_ver_info(9)
• ice_get_netlist_info(9)
• ice_get_inactive_netlist_ver(9)
• ice_discover_flash_size(9)
• ice_read_sr_pointer(9)
• ice_read_sr_area_size(9)
• ice_determine_active_flash_banks(9)
• ice_get_nvm_css_hdr_len(9)
• ice_determine_css_hdr_len(9)
• ice_init_nvm(9)
• ice_nvm_validate_checksum(9)
• ice_nvm_write_activate(9)
• ice_aq_nvm_update_empr(9)

mwah 💖 this page lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, stamped October 2026, and it’s literally ice_get_inactive_orom_ver(9) — periodt. 👑