vmw_surface_get_desc(9)

✨ vmw_surface_get_desc(9) ✨

okay so first thing, this is from the Kernel API Manual, and the whole vibe is: we're out here walking through the vmwgfx surface cache in ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx and you're gonna understand it. bestie, let's go. 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

vmw_surface_get_desc — literally just looks up the appropriate SVGA3dSurfaceDesc for the given format. that's it, that's the whole job. no cap. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

const SVGA3dSurfaceDesc * vmw_surface_get_desc (SVGA3dSurfaceFormat
format );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• format — so the manpage says... absolutely nothing about this one 💀 it literally says -- undescribed -- and honestly? iconic. so we're not gonna sit here and invent lore for it. it's a parameter, it exists, the documentation does NOT spill the tea. 🙈

note: i'm not gonna make stuff up about what format does, because the original gives us zero (0) details, and we do NOT do fake facts in this group chat. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page hands you the whole extended universe. get comfy. 👑

the actual kernel file itself:

• ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmw_surface_cache.h

and the whole friend group (all (9) sections, all of them, yes really, i listed every single one 😭):

• vmw_surface_get_mip_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_image_buffer_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_serialized_size(9)
• vmw_surface_get_serialized_size_extended(9)
• vmw_surface_get_pixel_offset(9)
• vmw_surface_is_gb_screen_target_format(9)
• vmw_surface_is_dx_screen_target_format(9)
• vmw_surface_is_screen_target_format(9)
• struct vmw_surface_mip(9)
• struct vmw_surface_cache(9)
• struct vmw_surface_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_subres(9)
• vmw_surface_setup_cache(9)
• vmw_surface_get_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_inc_loc(9)
• vmw_surface_min_loc(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie. go read the friends, they're all linked up above. stay hydrated, keep your structs aligned, periodt. 💅✨

🫶 cute little sign-off: this one came from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, dated October 2026 — the version that gave us this Kernel API Manual page. mwah. 🍓