> related: the i810 RNG has a driver, but it feeds data to /dev/random
> via a userspace daemon (rngd), so again entropy count is not changed.
>
> kind of shame on the only mass-market RNG hardware out there.
Just tweak the daemon to update the entropy count correctly using the
appropriate ioctl function (RND_ADD_ENTROPY). Search drivers/chars/random.c
for random_ioctl. I've written several programs that acquire entropy from
various sources and exchange them with the kernel entropy pool. It's not
difficult at all.
DS
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