ixgbe_flash_component(9)

💅 ixgbe_flash_component(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so welcome to the ixgbe_flash_component(9) page bestie, this is from the Kernel API Manual and it's all about flashing a component of the NVM 🎀 ngl the name kinda eats

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_flash_component — Flash a component of the NVM 🔥

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_flash_component (struct pldmfw *context , struct
pldmfw_component *component );

like, that's the whole signature, copy it exactly pls, no cap 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• context — the PLDM fw update structure 🫶
• component — the component table to program ⭐

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what this icon actually does: it programs the flash contents for a given component. the way it flows is:

1. First, determine the module id 🎀
2. Then, erase the secondary bank for this module 💀
3. Finally, write the contents of the component to the NVM 🌈

⚠️ heads up bestie: this function assumes the caller has acquired the NVM resource. that's not a vibe check you can skip, fr fr — it's literally an assumption baked into the function 🙈

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👑 RETURN 👑

0 on success, or a negative error code on failure 😭 (so like, zero = slay, negative = not slay)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fw_update.c — go read it, iykyk 📖

• ixgbe_send_package_data(9)
• ixgbe_check_component_response(9)
• ixgbe_send_component_table(9)
• ixgbe_write_one_nvm_block(9)
• ixgbe_write_nvm_module(9)
• ixgbe_erase_nvm_module(9)
• ixgbe_switch_flash_banks(9)
• ixgbe_finalize_update(9)
• ixgbe_get_pending_updates(9)
• ixgbe_cancel_pending_update(9)
• ixgbe_flash_pldm_image(9)

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and that's the page!! 🌟 this one came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026, so like, future energy fr fr 💜 thanks for reading bestie, go flash some NVM responsibly 🎀✨🦋