BGW(4)

🎀 BGW(4) 🎀

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for bgw, aka the Bosch motion sensor driver — section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, if you're keeping track 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

bgw — Bosch motion sensor 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bgw* at iic?

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The bgw driver provides support for the Bosch BMC150, BMI055, BMA222E, BMA250E, BMA255 and BMA280 motion sensors. no cap, that's a whole little family of them 👑

The acceleration data as well as the chip temperature are made available through the sysctl(8) interface. so like… your sensor readings and the chip's temp? both just vibing in sysctl. iconic behavior honestly 🌡️✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• iic(4)
• intro(4)
• sensorsd(8)
• sysctl(8)

go read those too bestie, iykyk 📚

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

The bgw driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.3. a legend was born, periodt 🌈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The bgw driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>. thank you king, we appreciate you fr fr 🙏💜

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okay that's the whole page!! go forth and read your accelerometer data, main character energy only 💅✨

Debian 🌸 November 30, 2017 — mwah, that's a wrap, ily, drink some water 🍓🧚💖