GLXSB(4) | Device Drivers Manual (i386) | GLXSB(4) |
glxsb
—
glxsb* at pci?
glxsb
driver supports the security block of the
Geode LX series processors. The Geode LX is a member of the AMD Geode family
of integrated x86 system chips.
Driven by periodic checks for available data from the generator,
glxsb
supplies entropy to the
random(4) driver for common
usage.
glxsb
also supports acceleration of
AES-CBC operations for
crypto(4).
glxsb
device first appeared in
NetBSD 4.0.
glxsb
driver was written for
OpenBSD by Tom Cosgrove. It
was ported to NetBSD by
glxsb
driver only provides random numbers and AES
acceleration. Since it does not provide HMACs, IPSec will not currently use
it; it will however be used by OpenSSH.
February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 9.4 |