ACPIHVE(4)

🎀 ACPIHVE(4) — Hyper-V entropy 🎀

okay so this is the acpihve(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it is genuinely giving tiny-driver-with-a-very-important-job energy 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

acpihve — Hyper-V entropy. no cap, that's the whole name bestie 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

acpihve* at acpi?

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Hyper-V hosts make entropy available to guests in the OEM0 ACPI table. slay for them.

The acpihve driver feeds this entropy into the kernel's entropy pool. literally its whole main-character job 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• acpi(4)
• enqueue_randomness(9)

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The acpihve driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.1.

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and that's the page, bestie 💖 this one came from Debian, dated April 28, 2018 — footer iconically still repping ACPIHVE(4) in all caps 🎀