ppc440spe_chan_append(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ppc440spe_chan_append 💅

ok so we're in the ppc440spe_chan_append(9) page, section 9 of the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, the kernel manual, we're literally in the driver source rn 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ppc440spe_chan_append — update the h/w chain in the channel

that's it, that's the whole vibe. it updates the hardware chain. in the channel. slay ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ppc440spe_chan_append (struct ppc440spe_adma_chan *chan );

returns void, so like… it doesn't hand you anything back. it just does the thing. main character energy honestly 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • chan — the channel you're passing in. and like… that's genuinely all the docs say?? the original literally just says -- undescribed -- 😭 so no cap, the kernel-doc for this one is giving "left as an exercise for the reader". i'm not gonna invent lore for you, bestie — it's a struct ppc440spe_adma_chan * named chan, and that's the whole story we've got. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ok this is the part where the manpage goes absolutely feral with cross-references, and i mean feral. buckle up, we're listing every single one because i would never do you dirty like that 💖

the source file:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/dma/ppc4xx/adma.c

the desc_init family (they're all siblings, it's a whole dynasty):

setters (they set things, iconic behaviour):

links & alignment:

slot counting shenanigans:

channel state & status girlies:

descriptor juggling:

rxor my beloved 🌀:

resources & submission:

the prep squad (so many preps, they ate):

dest & src wiring, like little patch cables:

interrupts & errors (the ✨drama✨):

lifecycle:

💜 friendly reminder: every one of those (9) refs is a manual section 9 page, so if you're lost, that's where you go looking. ikyk. 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie — no filler, no gatekeeping, we kept every single reference because that's just how we do it around here 👑

sign-off time 🎀 this lil beauty lives under ./drivers/dma/ppc4xx, dated October 2026, and its full name-title is ppc440spe_chan_append(9) — mwah, go update that hardware chain 💋🌸✨

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