ps3_repository_read_be_id(9)

✨ ps3_repository_read_be_id ✨

okay so this one's from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — it's ps3_repository_read_be_id(9) and it's literally the little function that goes and fetches the physical BE processor id for you 🎀 no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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💖 NAME 💖

ps3_repository_read_be_id — Read the physical BE processor id. that's it, that's the gig 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ps3_repository_read_be_id (u64 node_id , u64 *be_id );

so yeah, it returns an int (the classic "did it work tho" report), takes a u64 node_id and writes into a u64 *be_id 🦋

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• node_id — The BE processor node id. you're telling it which node you care about 🫶
• be_id — The BE processor id. this is the pointer where the id lands once it's read ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c — that's where the whole thing lives, go peek if you're curious 👀

• make_first_field(9)
• make_field(9)
• read_node(9)
• ps3_repository_read_num_pu(9)
• ps3_repository_read_pu_id(9)
• ps3_repository_read_mm_info(9)
• ps3_repository_read_highmem_region_count(9)
• ps3_repository_read_highmem_info(9)
• ps3_repository_read_num_spu_reserved(9)
• ps3_repository_read_num_spu_resource_id(9)
• ps3_repository_read_spu_resource_id(9)
• ps3_repository_read_boot_dat_info(9)
• ps3_repository_read_num_be(9)
• ps3_repository_read_be_node_id(9)

literally the whole friend group of repository readers, they all ate 💀🔥

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ok that's the end of the page bestie, mwah 💜

and for the cute sign-off: this little cutie comes to you from ./arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3, dated October 2026 — iconic, timeless, periodt 🌈⭐🧚