pdc_hw_init(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ pdc_hw_init(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual, we're in the big-kid docs now 💅 this one's about a lil function called pdc_hw_init, and honestly? it's giving "short and sweet but lowkey important". let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdc_hw_init — takes the initialization parameters you hand it and uses them to initialize the state for one of the PDCs ✨

like, that's literally the whole job. you give it the params, it sets up the state for one of the PDCs. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void pdc_hw_init (struct pdc_state *pdcs );

that's it. one arg. no return value (void, she doesn't owe you an answer 💅). copy it exactly, bestie, character for character — no "fixing" the spacing, we don't do that here 🙈

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pdcs — the state of the PDC 💖 that's the thing you're handing over. it's a struct pdc_state *, so yes, pointer, and yes, it needs to actually be a real PDC's state. don't be weird about it 🌈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay this is the part where the manpage just dumps the whole friend group on you 😭 but fr fr, these are all in the kernel file ./drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c, and they all get their own (9) pages — go read them, iykyk:

and the kernel file itself: ./drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c — that's the source of truth, the main character, the whole vibe 🔥

that's the page, bestie — short, sweet, and every single reference intact, no cap ✨ this beauty lives under ./drivers/mailbox, from the October 2026 release of the Kernel API Manual, page pdc_hw_init(9). mwah, go init some PDC state 💜🎀

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