pvr_fw_process(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, you found pvr_fw_process(9) in the Kernel API Manual — welcome to the kernel-coded group chat 💅. This function is literally here to process a firmware image, allocate FW memory, and create boot arguments. That's the whole NAME-line moment: Process firmware image, allocate FW memory and create boot arguments. No cap, that's the job 🫶.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The signature is giving one argument and an int return, periodt:

int pvr_fw_process (struct pvr_device *pvr_dev );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• pvr_dev — Device pointer. That's it. The device pointer is the whole argument moment 🫶.

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💖 RETURN 💖

The return vibe check is:

• 0 — on success, or
• Any error returned by pvr_fw_object_create_and_map_offset, or
• Any error returned by pvr_fw_object_create_and_map.

So yeah, success gets you a cute little 0, and those mapping functions can send back their errors instead 😭.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_fw.c, and the whole squad is:

• Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_fw.c
• pvr_fw_validate(9)
• pvr_wait_for_fw_boot(9)
• pvr_fw_validate_init_device_info(9)
• pvr_fw_init(9)
• pvr_fw_fini(9)
• pvr_fw_mts_schedule(9)
• pvr_fw_structure_cleanup(9)
• pvr_fw_object_fw_map(9)
• pvr_fw_object_fw_unmap(9)
• pvr_fw_object_create(9)
• pvr_fw_object_create_and_map(9)
• pvr_fw_object_create_and_map_offset(9)
• pvr_fw_object_destroy(9)
• pvr_fw_object_get_fw_addr_offset(9)

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mwah 💋 — this page lives under ./drivers/gpu/drm/imagination, and the footer date is October 2026. That's the source/version-and-date sign-off, bestie; pvr_fw_process(9) out! 🌈👑