mei_me_hw_start(9)

🌸 mei_me_hw_start(9) — Kernel API Manual 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the mei_me_hw_start page 💖 this is from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the glow-up moment where the hardware gets told to wake up and be a main character. it's giving "rise and shine" but for a mei device. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

mei_me_hw_start — the hw start routine 💅 (yes that's it, that's the whole vibe, she starts the hardware)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int mei_me_hw_start (struct mei_device *dev );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• dev — the mei device. that's your girl right there, the whole struct mei_device * you're handing over so she can do her thing 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉 periodt
• error otherwise 😭 (any non-zero number means something went sideways, and the function says so by returning an error)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long long, so buckle up — but every single one of these is a real one, iykyk 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c

• mei_me_reg_read(9)
• mei_me_reg_write(9)
• mei_me_mecbrw_read(9)
• mei_me_hcbww_write(9)
• mei_me_mecsr_read(9)
• mei_hcsr_read(9)
• mei_hcsr_write(9)
• mei_hcsr_set(9)
• mei_hcsr_set_hig(9)
• mei_me_d0i3c_read(9)
• mei_me_d0i3c_write(9)
• mei_me_trc_status(9)
• mei_me_fw_status(9)
• mei_me_hw_config(9)
• mei_me_pg_state(9)
• me_intr_disable(9)
• me_intr_clear(9)
• mei_me_intr_clear(9)
• mei_me_intr_enable(9)
• mei_me_intr_disable(9)
• mei_me_synchronize_irq(9)
• mei_me_hw_reset_release(9)
• mei_me_host_set_ready(9)
• mei_me_host_is_ready(9)
• mei_me_hw_is_ready(9)
• mei_me_hw_is_resetting(9)
• mei_gsc_pxp_check(9)
• mei_me_hw_ready_wait(9)
• mei_hbuf_filled_slots(9)
• mei_me_hbuf_is_empty(9)
• mei_me_hbuf_empty_slots(9)
• mei_me_hbuf_depth(9)
• mei_me_hbuf_write(9)
• mei_me_count_full_read_slots(9)
• mei_me_read_slots(9)
• mei_me_pg_set(9)
• mei_me_pg_unset(9)
• mei_me_pg_legacy_enter_sync(9)
• mei_me_pg_legacy_exit_sync(9)
• mei_me_pg_in_transition(9)
• mei_me_pg_is_enabled(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_set(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_unset(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_enter_sync(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_enter(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_exit_sync(9)
• mei_me_pg_legacy_intr(9)
• mei_me_d0i3_intr(9)
• mei_me_pg_intr(9)
• mei_me_pg_enter_sync(9)
• mei_me_pg_exit_sync(9)
• mei_me_hw_reset(9)
• mei_me_irq_quick_handler(9)
• mei_me_irq_thread_handler(9)
• mei_me_polling_thread(9)
• mei_me_fw_type_nm(9)
• mei_me_fw_type_sps_4(9)
• mei_me_fw_type_sps_ign(9)
• mei_me_dev_init(9)

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reminder bestie: read the whole list before you go grepping, because it's literally all right here 💜

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this cutie lives under ./drivers/misc/mei, dated October 2026, and she answers to the name mei_me_hw_start(9) — stan her, she starts hardware for a living 👑✨🎀