BCMIRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

BCMIRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

bcmirng - Broadcom RNG200 random number generator

SYNOPSIS #

bcmirng* at fdt?

DESCRIPTION #

The bcmirng driver provides support for the RNG200 random number generator found on the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC.

It feeds the random subsystem’s entropy pool with up to 128 bits of random data every second.

SEE ALSO #

intro(4), random(4), arc4random(9)

HISTORY #

The bcmirng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7.

AUTHORS #

The bcmirng driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>.

OpenBSD 7.5 - June 20, 2020