bcmirng(4)

bcmirng4

Broadcom rng200 random number generator

Usage

bcmirng* at fdt?

Overview

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.

Releases

15 releases since OpenBSD 6.7; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.7
  2. 6.8–8.0

History

The bcmirng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7.

Authors

The bcmirng driver was written by Mark Kettenis ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.