On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:10:52 +0200
Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 30/09/15 10:33, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:01:09 +1000
> > David Gibson wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> >>> A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-devic
On 30/09/15 10:33, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:01:09 +1000
> David Gibson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
>>> A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-device to
>>> provide high-quality random numbers to guests. The device m
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:01:09 +1000
David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-device to
> > provide high-quality random numbers to guests. The device may either be
> > backed by a "RngBackend" o
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-device to
> provide high-quality random numbers to guests. The device may either be
> backed by a "RngBackend" or the in-kernel implementation of the H_RANDOM
> hypercall.
>
>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:13:47 +0200
Greg Kurz wrote:
> A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-device to
> provide high-quality random numbers to guests. The device may either be
> backed by a "RngBackend" or the in-kernel implementation of the H_RANDOM
> hype
A recent patch by Thomas Huth brought a new spapr-rng pseudo-device to
provide high-quality random numbers to guests. The device may either be
backed by a "RngBackend" or the in-kernel implementation of the H_RANDOM
hypercall.
Since modern POWER8 based servers always provide a hardware rng, it mak