SXISID(4)

πŸ“¦ in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’– SXISID(4) β€” the sxisid manual page, bestie edition πŸ’–

okay so this is sxisid(4), a kernel interfaces manual page, and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving "tiny driver, big main character energy." let's get into it ✨


🌸 NAME 🌸

sxisid β€” Allwinner security ID

like, that's it. that's the whole name. the driver is called sxisid and what it does is handle the Allwinner security ID situation. iconic, lowkey πŸŽ€


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sxisid* at fdt?

that's the whole config line, no cap. the * means it can be attached at any unit number, at fdt? means it hangs off the flattened device tree, and the ? on the end means it's optional β€” it might be there, it might not, vibe check πŸ¦‹


πŸ’… DESCRIPTION πŸ’…

so here's the tea: the sxisid driver provides support for reading the on-chip eFuses integrated on various Allwinner SoCs.

eFuses, if you were wondering β€” those are little one-time-programmable bits baked right into the chip. the driver's whole job is letting you read them. that's it. that's the function. she reads, she slays, she does not write 🌈

also important: this works on various Allwinner SoCs, not just one. plural. multiple. a whole roster of them πŸ’œ


πŸŽ€ SEE ALSO πŸŽ€

  • intro(4) β€” the intro to the section 4 device drivers. go say hi, she's friendly 🫢

πŸ‘‘ HISTORY πŸ‘‘

the sxisid device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7. so she's been on the scene since 6.7 β€” not a newbie, not ancient either. a solid year. a timeless queen, honestly ⭐


🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

the sxisid driver was written by Krystian Lewandowski and Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>. two whole legends. we stan collaborative authorship, fr fr πŸ’–


ok that's literally the entire page β€” no options, no flags, no environment variables, no exit statuses, no bugs section, no warnings. she's a minimal queen and we respect it πŸ’…

and finally, the cute sign-off: this page lives in the Debian build of the manual, dated June 20, 2020, and it's the SXISID(4) page forever and always πŸ“βœ¨ bye bestie, go read some eFuses πŸ¦‹

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
  • nixpkgs unstable: cvs-export
  • πŸ’– girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms