ixgbe_start_hw_82599(9)

💅 ixgbe_start_hw_82599 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbe_start_hw_82599 — yes it's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_start_hw_82599 — Prepare hardware for Tx/Rx 🫶 like, we're warming up the NIC so it can actually do its thing, no cap

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_start_hw_82599 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

literally the whole signature, right there, copy it exactly bestie 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to hardware structure. yes. that's the whole thing. it's the struct that holds all your hardware vibes 🦋

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function starts the hardware using the generic start_hw function and the generation start_hw function. two for the price of one, we love a combo 💅

then, after all that, it performs revision-specific operations — if any. and that "if any" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, so don't @ me 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie there are SO many siblings, buckle up 🎢

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c — go say hi 👋

• prot_autoc_read_82599(9)
• prot_autoc_write_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_phy_ops_82599(9)
• ixgbe_get_link_capabilities_82599(9)
• ixgbe_get_media_type_82599(9)
• ixgbe_stop_mac_link_on_d3_82599(9)
• ixgbe_start_mac_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_disable_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_enable_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_flap_tx_laser_multispeed_fiber(9)
• ixgbe_set_hard_rate_select_speed(9)
• ixgbe_setup_mac_link_smartspeed(9)
• ixgbe_setup_mac_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_setup_copper_link_82599(9)
• ixgbe_reset_hw_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_check_cmd_complete(9)
• ixgbe_reinit_fdir_tables_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_enable_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_fdir_signature_82599(9)
• ixgbe_init_fdir_perfect_82599(9)
• ixgbe_atr_compute_sig_hash_82599(9)
• ixgbe_fdir_add_signature_filter_82599(9)
• ixgbe_atr_compute_perfect_hash_82599(9)
• ixgbe_get_fdirtcpm_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_analog_reg8_82599(9)
• ixgbe_write_analog_reg8_82599(9)
• ixgbe_identify_phy_82599(9)
• ixgbe_enable_rx_dma_82599(9)
• ixgbe_verify_fw_version_82599(9)
• ixgbe_verify_lesm_fw_enabled_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_eeprom_buffer_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_eeprom_82599(9)
• ixgbe_reset_pipeline_82599(9)
• ixgbe_read_i2c_byte_82599(9)
• ixgbe_write_i2c_byte_82599(9)

thirty-five of them. thirty-five!! and every single one made the list, we do NOT skip entries in this house 👑 iykyk 💜

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💀 friendly reminder: these are all (9) manual section refs, so like… don't go looking for them in section 1, bestie 🙈

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sign-off time 🎀 this page came from the source/version line ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 — so mark your calendars, screenshot it, frame it, it's giving archival slay ⭐ bye bestie, go start some hardware 🦋💖