intel_opregion_get_edid(9)

💖 intel_opregion_get_edid 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — this is the page for intel_opregion_get_edid, and honestly? it's a little baddie of a function. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

intel_opregion_get_edid — grab the EDID straight out of ACPI OpRegion mailbox #5, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct drm_edid * intel_opregion_get_edid (struct intel_connector
*connector );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• connector — the eDP connector. that's the one we're pulling the EDID for, she's the main character here 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is: she reads that ACPI Opregion mailbox #5 and extracts the EDID that's been passed to it. that's it, that's the whole vibe — read the mailbox, yoink the EDID out. lowkey iconic ✨

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💜 RETURN 💜

you get back the EDID that's sitting in the OpRegion 🎁

or you get NULL — and that's when there isn't one at all, or when the one that's there is invalid. so like, always vibe check the return value bestie, NULL is fully a possibility 😭💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_opregion.c — go read the source, iykyk 🔥

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this little gem lives down in ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display, she's dated October 2026, and she's part of the Kernel API Manual — go be great with her fr fr 🧚‍♀️💖⭐