vmw_kms_lost_device(9)

💖 vmw_kms_lost_device(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for vmw_kms_lost_device(9) — yes the whole manual is named after it, she's that girl 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

vmw_kms_lost_device — literally just tells kms "hey girl, we're about to lose our modesetting capabilities" 📉

Like, not metaphorically. It's a notification. A heads-up. The "we need to talk" text of kernel functions 💀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void vmw_kms_lost_device (struct drm_device *dev );

void, as in returns nothing, as in she does her thing and dips 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — pointer to the drm device 🖥️ that's the one and only parameter, the whole main character of this function call ngl

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

First up, the actual source file, no cap:

Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c

and then the whole ✨friend group✨ of related functions, all of them, in order, because we do not skip anyone in this house 👑

• vmw_du_plane_unpin_surf(9)
• vmw_du_plane_cleanup_fb(9)
• vmw_du_primary_plane_atomic_check(9)
• vmw_du_crtc_duplicate_state(9)
• vmw_du_crtc_reset(9)
• vmw_du_crtc_destroy_state(9)
• vmw_du_plane_duplicate_state(9)
• vmw_du_plane_reset(9)
• vmw_du_plane_destroy_state(9)
• vmw_du_connector_duplicate_state(9)
• vmw_du_connector_reset(9)
• vmw_du_connector_destroy_state(9)
• vmw_kms_readback(9)
• vmw_kms_srf_ok(9)
• vmw_kms_new_framebuffer(9)
• vmw_kms_check_display_memory(9)
• vmw_crtc_state_and_lock(9)
• vmw_kms_check_implicit(9)
• vmw_kms_check_topology(9)
• vmw_kms_atomic_check_modeset(9)
• vmw_du_update_layout(9)
• vmw_guess_mode_timing(9)
• vmw_kms_update_layout_ioctl(9)
• vmw_kms_helper_dirty(9)
• vmw_kms_helper_validation_finish(9)
• vmw_kms_create_implicit_placement_property(9)
• vmw_kms_suspend(9)
• vmw_kms_resume(9)
• vmw_du_helper_plane_update(9)
• vmw_connector_mode_valid(9)
• vmw_connector_get_modes(9)

that's a lot of friends but like, they all live in the same neighbourhood, it makes sense 💖

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anyway that's the whole page, short and sweet, she said what she said 🎤

mwah 💋 this was brought to you by the source ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026, and the manual page vmw_kms_lost_device(9) — catch you in the next one bestie!! 🌈⭐💜