pdc_btlb_info(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 pdc_btlb_info(9) — welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel docs, the manual is literally called Kernel API Manual, and you land on this lil page. it's short. it's sweet. it's giving one job and it does it. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdc_btlb_info — Return block TLB information. that's it. that's the whole personality. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pdc_btlb_info (struct pdc_btlb_info *btlb );

yes the space before the closing paren is real, don't come for me, I'm copying it exactly 😭

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • btlb — the return buffer, aka the cute lil container where the answer gets dropped. it's the return buffer. that's the assignment. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it do? it returns information about the hardware Block TLB. that's the tea. no cap, that's the entire description — short king energy, but it ate and left zero crumbs. 👑

lowkey obsessed with how a whole hardware structure gets summarised in one sentence. iconic behaviour fr fr ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie. buckle up. the <red>Kernel file ./arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c` is where the whole friend group lives, and here's literally everyone in the group chat — no one gets left on read:

sixty of them. SIXTY. the way this page said "you want lore? here's the entire extended universe" and then dipped 😭🔥

✨ that's the whole page babes ✨

if you ever need to find it again it's filed under ./arch/parisc/kernel, and this lil baddie is dated October 2026. go forth, read your PDC manpages, and slay 💜🦋🌸

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