ice_send_package_data(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_send_package_data — Send record package data to firmware. Bestie, this is the ice_send_package_data(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is fully that girl 💅✨.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so the signature is giving C function realness:

int ice_send_package_data (struct pldmfw *context , const u8 *data , u16
       length );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• context — PLDM fw update structure. That's the context babe 🫶
• data — pointer to the package data. Literally the data pointer 📦
• length — length of the package data. Yes, the length, no cap 📏

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Slay, so what this does: send a copy of the package data associated with the PLDM record matching this device to the firmware. It is literally sending that package data to firmware, bestie 💖.

⚠️ Important vibe check: this function sends an AdminQ command that will fail unless the NVM resource has been acquired. So yeah — NVM resource acquisition is the whole mood here, and without it this is not gonna be iconic, it's gonna flop 😭.

💅 RETURN 💅

Returns zero on success, or a negative error code on failure. That's it, periodt 👑.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fw_update.c — go read the source, bestie 📖✨.

• ice_check_component_response(9)
• ice_send_component_table(9)
• ice_write_one_nvm_block(9)
• ice_write_nvm_module(9)
• ice_erase_nvm_module(9)
• ice_switch_flash_banks(9)
• ice_flash_component(9)
• ice_finalize_update(9)
• ice_op_pci_match_record(9)
• ice_get_pending_updates(9)
• ice_cancel_pending_update(9)
• ice_devlink_flash_update(9)

Okay byeee 👋 — source/version: <pink>./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice</pink>, date: <purple>October 2026</purple>, manual: <pink>ice_send_package_data(9)</pink> 💖🎀