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Revision 1.2, Sat Apr 28 15:44:59 2018 UTC (6 years, 1 month ago) by jasper
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: OPENBSD_7_5_BASE, OPENBSD_7_5, OPENBSD_7_4_BASE, OPENBSD_7_4, OPENBSD_7_3_BASE, OPENBSD_7_3, OPENBSD_7_2_BASE, OPENBSD_7_2, OPENBSD_7_1_BASE, OPENBSD_7_1, OPENBSD_7_0_BASE, OPENBSD_7_0, OPENBSD_6_9_BASE, OPENBSD_6_9, OPENBSD_6_8_BASE, OPENBSD_6_8, OPENBSD_6_7_BASE, OPENBSD_6_7, OPENBSD_6_6_BASE, OPENBSD_6_6, OPENBSD_6_5_BASE, OPENBSD_6_5, OPENBSD_6_4_BASE, OPENBSD_6_4, HEAD
Changes since 1.1: +3 -3 lines 

replace add_*_randomness with enqueue_randomness()

this gets rid of the source annotation which doesn't really add
anything other than adding complexitiy. randomess is generally
good enough that the few extra bits that the source type would
add are not worth it.

ok mikeb@ deraadt@

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.Dd $Mdocdate: April 28 2018 $
.Dt ACPIHVE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm acpihve
.Nd Hyper-V entropy
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "acpihve* at acpi?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Hyper-V hosts make entropy available to guests in the OEM0 ACPI table.
The
.Nm
driver feeds this entropy into the kernel's entropy pool.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acpi 4 ,
.Xr enqueue_randomness 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 6.1 .