initio_read_eeprom(9)

💖 initio_read_eeprom(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to the group chat where the host adapter spills its config tea. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

initio_read_eeprom — Retrieve configuration

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void initio_read_eeprom (unsigned long base );

That’s the whole signature, and yes it’s giving short and iconic. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• base — Base of InitIO Host Adapter. That’s the exact thing it wants passed in, bestie.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this function retrieves the host adapter configuration data from E2Prom. If the data is invalid then the defaults are used and are also restored into the E2PROM — so it’s not just reading, it’s restoring the defaults too. 💖

This forms the access point for the SCSI driver into the E2PROM layer. The other functions for the E2PROM are all internal use — iykyk. 🫶

⚠️ Warning, bestie: Must be called single threaded — it uses a shared global area. No cap, do not try to make this one a parallel vibe. 💀

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/initio.c, plus this whole friend group:

• initio_se2_instr(9)
• initio_se2_ew_en(9)
• initio_se2_ew_ds(9)
• initio_se2_rd(9)
• initio_se2_wr(9)
• initio_se2_rd_all(9)
• initio_se2_update_all(9)
• initio_stop_bm(9)
• initio_reset_scsi(9)
• initio_init(9)
• initio_alloc_scb(9)
• initio_release_scb(9)
• initio_next_state(9)
• initio_state_1(9)
• initio_state_2(9)
• initio_state_3(9)
• initio_state_4(9)
• initio_state_5(9)
• initio_state_6(9)
• initio_state_7(9)
• initio_xfer_data_in(9)
• initio_xfer_data_out(9)
• int_initio_scsi_rst(9)
• int_initio_resel(9)
• int_initio_bad_seq(9)
• initio_msgout_abort_targ(9)
• initio_msgout_abort_tag(9)
• initio_msgin(9)
• initio_bus_device_reset(9)
• i91u_intr(9)
• initio_build_scb(9)
• i91u_queuecommand_lck(9)
• i91u_bus_reset(9)
• i91u_biosparam(9)
• i91u_unmap_scb(9)
• initio_remove_one(9)

Catch you in the source tree, bestie 🫶 — this page comes from source/version ./drivers/scsi, dated October 2026, and it signs off as initio_read_eeprom(9). ✨💜