mvrng(4)

mvrng4

Marvell armada 7k/8k random number generator

Usage

mvrng* at fdt?

Overview

The mvrng driver provides support for the random number generator found on the Marvell ARMADA 7K/8K SoCs.

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

Releases

Unchanged in 18 releases since OpenBSD 6.4.

  1. 6.4–8.0

History

The mvrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.4.

Authors

The mvrng 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.