ps3_probe_thread(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to ps3_probe_thread(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for ps3_probe_thread, and it's literally giving Background repository probing at system startup. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature, untouched, because we do not mess with code:

int ps3_probe_thread (void *data );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• data — the manual says -- undescribed --, and no cap, that's the whole description bestie 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

here's the tea: this implementation only supports background probing on a single bus. 🚌 it uses the hypervisor's storage device notification mechanism to wait until a storage device is ready. the device notification mechanism uses a pseudo device to asynchronously notify the guest when storage devices become ready. and the notification device has a block size of 512 bytes 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
• ps3_setup_gelic_device(9)
• ps3_setup_dynamic_device(9)
• ps3_setup_static_device(9)
• ps3_stop_probe_thread(9)
• ps3_start_probe_thread(9)
• ps3_register_devices(9)

source/version check: ./arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3 · dated October 2026 — mwah bestie, that's the whole page 💖