BCMRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

BCMRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

bcmrng - Broadcom BCM2835/BCM2836/BCM2837 random number generator

SYNOPSIS #

bcmrng* at fdt?

DESCRIPTION #

The bcmrng driver provides support for the random number generator found on the Broadcom BCM2835/BCM2836/BCM2837 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 bcmrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.3.

AUTHORS #

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

OpenBSD 7.5 - June 20, 2020