intel_gvt_init(9)

okay bestie, this is intel_gvt_init(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and yes, we’re getting into GVT initialization together, hand in hand 🫶✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

intel_gvt_init — initialize GVT components 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int intel_gvt_init (struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• dev_priv — the drm i915 private data, periodt 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: this function gets called at the initialization stage, and its whole main-character job is to create a GVT device. That’s the vibe. ✨

⭐ RETURN ⭐

It returns zero on success — slay — and a negative error code if it failed 😭. No cap.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_gvt.c — yes bestie, the receipts are right there 🧾
• Intel GVT-g host support(9)
• intel_gvt_driver_remove(9)
• intel_gvt_resume(9)

and that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 signing off from ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915, October 2026 edition 🫶🎀