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17.Dd $Mdocdate: June 20 2020 $
18.Dt BCMIRNG 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm bcmirng
22.Nd Broadcom RNG200 random number generator
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "bcmirng* at fdt?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides support for the RNG200 random number generator found
29on the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC.
30.Pp
31It feeds the random subsystem's entropy pool with up to 128 bits of
32random data every second.
33.Sh SEE ALSO
34.Xr intro 4 ,
35.Xr random 4 ,
36.Xr arc4random 9
37.Sh HISTORY
38The
39.Nm
40driver first appeared in
41.Ox 6.7 .
42.Sh AUTHORS
43.An -nosplit
44The
45.Nm
46driver was written by
47.An Mark Kettenis Aq Mt kettenis@openbsd.org .
48