omap44xx_restart(9)

💅 omap44xx_restart(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — yes that's the manual name, we're being official today — and this page is all about omap44xx_restart, which is literally the function that hits the big red button on the SoC. no cap. 🔥

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✨ NAME ✨

omap44xx_restart — trigger a software restart of the SoC 🦋

like, it reboots the chip. that's the whole job. icon behavior honestly.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void omap44xx_restart (enum reboot_mode mode , const char *cmd );

that's it, that's the signature. void in, vibes out. 💜

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• mode — the "reboot mode", and yes the quotes are doing work here. bestie, go look at arch/arm/kernel/{setup,process}.c if you wanna know the tea ☕ about what values it can be.
• cmd — this one gets passed from the userspace program that's rebooting the system, but only if one was provided. optional queen 👑

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Resets the SoC. periodt. 💀

For cmd, the manual is pointing you at the 'reboot' syscall in kernel/sys.c — that's where the lore lives 📖✨.

No return value. she gives nothing back, she just restarts. main character energy honestly 👑.

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• Kernel file ./arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-restart.c — go read the source, iykyk 🌈

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🎀 friendly reminder that this thing resets the whole SoC — so like, don't call it unless you actually mean it, bestie 😭

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and that's the whole page fr fr 💖 this little love letter came from the ./arch/arm/mach-omap2 source, dated October 2026 — go off, OMAP4, you ate 🌸🦋✨