octeon_write_lcd(9)

🎀 octeon_write_lcd(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual for octeon_write_lcd(9) — the function that writes a string to the LCD display connected to the bootbus. it’s giving tiny display, big main character energy. 👑✨

💖 NAME 💖

octeon_write_lcd — write to the LCD display connected to the bootbus. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void octeon_write_lcd (const char *s );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• s — String to write. literally the string you’re sending to the LCD, bestie. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this display exists on most Cavium evaluation boards. that’s the vibe. 💖

if it doesn’t exist, then this function doesn’t do anything. not me describing the most graceful “ma’am this is a no-op” moment ever 😭✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c and the whole squad:

• octeon_is_simulation(9)
• octeon_is_pci_host(9)
• octeon_get_clock_rate(9)
• octeon_get_boot_uart(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)

mwah 💋 this iconic page came from the ./arch/mips/cavium-octeon source/version, dated October 2026. no cap, that’s the sign-off. 🎀🦋💜