vpu_dec_deinit(9)

✨ vpu_dec_deinit(9) ✨

okay bestie, real talk: this is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the goodbye button for a decoder. no cap.

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💅 NAME 💅

vpu_dec_deinit — deinit decoder instance and resource freed in VPU. that's it, that's the whole vibe: it deinits and the resource gets freed in the VPU 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int vpu_dec_deinit (struct vdec_vpu_inst *vpu );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vpu — the instance for vdec_vpu_inst. that's the one you're shutting down, she's done her service 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec_vpu_if.h — struct vdec_vpu_inst(9)
• vpu_dec_init(9)
• vpu_dec_start(9)
• vpu_dec_end(9)
• vpu_dec_reset(9)
• vpu_dec_core(9)
• vpu_dec_core_end(9)
• vpu_dec_get_param(9)

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lowkey the whole decoder saga lives in ./drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec_vpu_if.h — go read it, iykyk 👑

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that's the page, bestie! 🌈 it's from the Kernel file source, dated October 2026, and the whole thing is filed under vpu_dec_deinit(9) — mwah, periodt 💅✨