BCMSTBRESET(4)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, meet bcmstbreset — the Broadcom Set-top Box reset controller. This is the BCMSTBRESET(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's here to explain the reset-controller situation. No cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bcmstbreset* at fdt?

That's literally the whole synopsis vibe, bestie. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The bcmstbreset driver controls the reset signals for integrated components of Broadcom Set-top Box SoCs. That includes the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC, which is used in the Raspberry Pi 5 — yes, that one, iconic. 🫶

It does not provide direct device driver entry points, but it makes its functions available to other drivers. So it's like the backstage bestie making sure everyone else can slay. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• intro(4) — classic, go check it out.

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

The bcmstbreset device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 7.8. Periodt. 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The bcmstbreset driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>. Give him his flowers. 🌸

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xoxo 💖 this was the Debian BCMSTBRESET(4) page, dated August 20, 2025. Bye bestie! 🎀