MTRNG(4)

🎀 MTRNG(4) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel Interfaces Manual — we're doing a whole deep dive on mtrng, and honestly it's iconic ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

mtrng — the MediaTek random number generator, aka your SoC's personal little chaos machine 🎲💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtrng* at fdt?

that's it. that's the whole config line. short king behavior, we love to see it 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the mtrng driver is out here providing support for the random number generator that lives on MediaTek SoCs 💅 like, that's its whole job and it does it well.

and what does it do with that power? it feeds the random subsystem's entropy pool with 32 bits of random data every second ⭐ every second!! she's consistent, she's reliable, she's giving main character energy fr fr

no cap, that's the entire description — simple, effective, obsessed 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• intro(4)
• random(4)
• arc4random(9)

iykyk, go read those if you wanna understand the whole ecosystem 💜

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the mtrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 7.7 🎉 so it's relatively new on the scene and already slaying

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the mtrng driver was written by James Hastings <hastings@openbsd.org> — legend behavior, we stan 🫡💖

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ok that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💀✨

cute little sign-off just for you: this one's from the Debian edition, dated February 14, 2025 — and yes, the page is called MTRNG(4) in case you forgot already 🙈🍓 bye bestie, go generate some entropy 💫