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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/viornd.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/viornd.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/viornd.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3200aa6d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/viornd.4 @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: viornd.4,v 1.2 2015/02/17 16:29:16 bentley Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 17 2015 $ +.Dt VIORND 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm viornd +.Nd VirtIO random number device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "viornd* at virtio? flags 0x00" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides a virtual random number generator using a +.Xr virtio 4 +entropy device provided by QEMU 1.3 and later, and possibly by other +hypervisors. +.Pp +As there is currently no way for +.Nm +to determine how much entropy is needed, the second byte of the flags value +can be used to configure how often it should request more entropy from the +host. +If the second lowest byte of the flags has a value from 1 to 15, +.Nm +will ask for 16 bytes of entropy every 15 * (1 << value) seconds. +For example, flags == 0x100 means an interval of 30 seconds, +0x500 means 8 minutes, 0xa00 means 256 minutes, and 0xf00 means about 6 days. +For flags == 0, a default value will be used (currently 8 minutes). +If the bit 0x1000 is set in the flags, +.Nm +will only request entropy from the host once during system boot. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr virtio 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 5.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Stefan Fritsch Aq Mt sf@sfritsch.de . |
