ice_read_nvm_sr_copy(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_read_nvm_sr_copy — like, the whole lore

okay so this is ice_read_nvm_sr_copy(9) from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, bestie — kernel internals, we're in the big leagues now ✨). She's a little function that goes and grabs a single word out of the Shadow RAM copy sitting in the NVM bank. Cute, right? 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ice_read_nvm_sr_copy — read a word from the Shadow RAM copy in the NVM bank 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_read_nvm_sr_copy (struct ice_hw *hw , enum ice_bank_select bank
, u32 offset , u16 *data );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure 🫶 literally the hardware handshake, can't do anything without her
  • bank — tells us whether we're reading from the active or the inactive NVM module 👑 pick your fighter
  • offset — offset into the Shadow RAM copy that we're reading, and bestie it's measured in words (not bytes, don't come at me) 📏
  • data — the storage where the returned word value lands ⭐ she comes back through this pointer, that's the whole vibe

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does she actually do? She reads the specified word from the copy of the Shadow RAM that lives inside the specified NVM module. That's it. That's the job. Slay. 💅

lowkey important note 🧚: the Shadow RAM copy is always located after the CSS header, and it's aligned to 64-byte (32-word) offsets. no cap, that's just how she's laid out.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c — go read the source, iykyk 📂

And the whole friend group, fr fr:

okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 — main character documentation energy, periodt. 🌈👑

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