set_con2fb_map(9)

✨ set_con2fb_map 💅

okay bestie, so this one's from the Kernel API Manual — it's set_con2fb_map, and it's literally the glow-up artist that pairs a virtual console with a frame buffer device 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

set_con2fb_map — map console to frame buffer device

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int set_con2fb_map (int unit , int newidx , int user );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• unit — the virtual console number you're mapping (which console are we matching up?)
• newidx — the frame buffer index you want that virtual console mapped to
• user — user request

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So basically: it maps a virtual console unit to a frame buffer device newidx. Matchmaker mode, no cap 💅

⚠️ Important, bestie, do not skip this: this should be called with the console lock held. Like, held held. Lock it before you call, okay? 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c — go read it, iykyk 👑

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