Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-30 Thread Greg Kurz
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-30 Thread Thomas Huth
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-30 Thread Greg Kurz
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-29 Thread David Gibson
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. > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-28 Thread Greg Kurz
Cc'ing qemu-ppc@ 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

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: add a default rng device

2015-09-28 Thread Greg Kurz
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