STRUCT MCHP_IPC_INIT(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸŽ€ struct mchp_ipc_init(9) πŸŽ€

Okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie πŸ’– β€” today’s main character is struct mchp_ipc_init(9), and it is literally the IPC channel init message format. Slay.


✨ NAME ✨

struct mchp_ipc_init β€” IPC channel init message format. That’s the vibe, no cap πŸ’….

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct mchp_ipc_init {
    u16 max_msg_size;
};

πŸ’… Members πŸ’…

  • max_msg_size β€” the maxmimum message size in bytes of a given channel πŸ™ˆ (yep, that spelling is straight from the page, bestie β€” I’m just the messenger 🫢).

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So this struct is used by the SBI_EXT_IPC_CH_INIT SBI function id to get the max message size in bytes of the initialized channel. That’s the whole assignment, and it ate πŸ”₯.

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

  • Kernel file: ./drivers/mailbox/mailbox-mchp-ipc-sbi.c
  • struct mchp_ipc_mbox_info(9)
  • struct mchp_ipc_status(9)
  • struct mchp_ipc_sbi_msg(9)

Go read those next, iykyk πŸ¦‹βœ¨


That’s the whole page, bestie πŸ’– β€” source/version: ./drivers/mailbox, dated October 2026, for struct mchp_ipc_init(9). Periodt, bye πŸ‘‘πŸŒˆ

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from