AMLSM(4)

✨ AMLSM(4) ✨ — Amlogic secure monitor 💅

okay bestie, this is the manual page for amlsm — the Amlogic secure monitor. it's from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and we're gonna get you comfy with it. periodt.

💖 NAME 💖

amlsm — Amlogic secure monitor

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

amlsm* at fdt?

yep, that's the whole synopsis — main character energy, honestly.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The amlsm driver provides support for the secure monitor firmware interface on various Amlogic SOCs. It uses this interface to read the chip ID of the SoC and feeds it to the random subsystem's entropy pool. so it's doing a little hardware ID read and then handing that data over to the randomness pool — iykyk.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• intro(4)
• random(4)

👑 HISTORY 👑

The amlsm device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.7. a whole era, no cap.

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

The amlsm driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>. give him his flowers, bestie.

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🎀 cute little sign-off: this AMLSM(4) page comes from Debian, dated June 20, 2020. that's the footer info, and we're honoring it instead of copying the line. 💖