mtrng(4)

mtrng4

Mediatek random number generator

Usage

mtrng* at fdt?

Overview

The mtrng driver provides support for the random number generator found on MediaTek SoCs.

It feeds the random subsystem's entropy pool with 32 bits of random data every second.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since OpenBSD 7.7.

  1. 7.7–8.0

History

The mtrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 7.7.

Authors

The mtrng driver was written by James Hastings ⟨[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.