bcmrng(4)

bcmrng4

Broadcom bcm2835/bcm2836/bcm2837 random number generator

Usage

bcmrng* at fdt?

Overview

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.

Releases

19 releases since OpenBSD 6.3; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.3–6.7
  2. 6.8–8.0

History

The bcmrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.3.

Authors

The bcmrng 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.