vmw_surface_...arget_format(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is vmw_surface_is_gb_screen_target_format from the Kernel API Manual — and what it does is: is the specified format usable as a ScreenTarget? (with just the GBObjects cap-bit set) 💅 that's the whole vibe check, fr fr.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool vmw_surface_is_gb_screen_target_format (SVGA3dSurfaceFormat format
);

literally one little function, returns a bool, takes one format, iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• format — the format being queried, bestie. that's it, that's the whole arg 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it hands you back true if the queried format is valid for screen targets — no extra lore, no plot twist, just a clean lil boolean 💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file it lives near, because everyone needs to know their roots:

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

and now the whole friend group, no cap, every single one of them:

• vmw_surface_get_desc(9)
• 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_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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ngl this one's short and sweet — don't go inventing behavior that isn't here, bestie, this page said what it said 😭

mwah 💋 this page came from ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx, version/date stamp October 2026, and the manpage name is vmw_surface_...arget_format(9) — go off, you understood it, i'm obsessed 🎀✨