ixgbevf_start_hw_vf(9)

💅 ixgbevf_start_hw_vf(9) 💅

okay bestie, this page is straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's all about ixgbevf_start_hw_vf — no cap, it's the little function that gets the hardware prepped for Tx/Rx. Let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbevf_start_hw_vf — prepare hardware for Tx/Rx 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s32 ixgbevf_start_hw_vf (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hw — pointer to hardware structure. that's the whole vibe check for this one, bestie 💖

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's what's tea: ixgbevf_start_hw_vf starts the hardware by filling the bus info structure and media type, clears all on chip counters, initializes receive address registers, multicast table, VLAN filter table, calls routine to set up link and flow control settings, and leaves transmit and receive units disabled and uninitialized. literally all of that. 💅

bestie notice the ending: transmit and receive units are left disabled and uninitialized — that's not a bug, that's just how this function finishes. periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c

• ixgbevf_init_hw_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_reset_hw_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_reset_hw_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_stop_hw_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_mta_vector(9)
• ixgbevf_get_mac_addr_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_get_reta_locked(9)
• ixgbevf_get_rss_key_locked(9)
• ixgbevf_set_rar_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_set_rar_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_update_mc_addr_list_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_update_mc_addr_list_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_update_xcast_mode(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_update_xcast_mode(9)
• ixgbevf_get_link_state_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_get_link_state_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_get_pf_link_state(9)
• ixgbevf_negotiate_features_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_set_vfta_vf(9)
• ixgbe_read_vflinks(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_set_vfta_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_setup_mac_link_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_check_mac_link_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_check_mac_link_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_set_rlpml_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_set_rlpml_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_negotiate_api_version_vf(9)
• ixgbevf_hv_negotiate_api_version_vf(9)

cute sign-off time: source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., date is October 2026, and this iconic page is ixgbevf_start_hw_vf(9) — bye bestie, go prep that hardware 🫶💖