AMLUART(4)

💖 AMLUART(4) 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — yes bestie, the kernel manual, we're getting technical today ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

amluart — the Amlogic Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, aka the little chip that handles your serial talking 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

amluart* at fdt?

like, that's literally the whole config line. amluart* at fdt? — she attaches at fdt, with a ? because the kernel's just vibing and figuring it out, iykyk 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The amluart driver supports the Amlogic Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART).

that's it. that's the whole description. she's short, she's sweet, she does exactly one thing and she does it iconically 👑

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• tty(4) — go read about ttys if you wanna know what this UART is feeding into, no cap 🍓

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

The amluart driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.6.

so she's been around since 6.6 — a whole era, honestly, we stan a consistent queen 💜

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

The amluart driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>.

thank you Mark, you ate that fr fr 🔥

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real talk: this manpage is very chill on details — no flags, no env vars, no exit statuses. what you see is what you get, bestie 💀

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kisses and good vibes from Debian, dated June 20, 2020 — that's the source and the date, and yes we're mentioning them because rules are rules 🎀✨