octeon_get_boot_uart(9)

🌸 octeon_get_boot_uart(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for octeon_get_boot_uart, and no cap this one is short but it's literally doing something kinda iconic 💅

✨ NAME ✨

octeon_get_boot_uart — Return the console uart passed by the bootloader 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int octeon_get_boot_uart (void );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• void — no arguments, bestie. absolutely none. zero. the void is voiding 🙈

✨ RETURN ✨

the uart number, which is 0 or 1 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the kernel file ./arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c is right there in the mix too, and then we've got the whole friend group:

• octeon_is_simulation(9)
• octeon_is_pci_host(9)
• octeon_get_clock_rate(9)
• octeon_write_lcd(9)
• octeon_get_boot_coremask(9)
• octeon_check_cpu_bist(9)
• octeon_restart(9)
• octeon_kill_core(9)
• octeon_halt(9)
• octeon_board_type_string(9)
• prom_init(9)

lowkey the whole point is just: bootloader told us which uart is the console, and this function hands that number back to you. 0 or 1, that's the vibe check. periodt. 💖

and that's the page, bestie!! mwah 🎀 this cutie came from ./arch/mips/cavium-octeon and it's dated October 2026 — slay, see you in the next manpage, iykyk 🌈🦋💜