On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote:
Hi all,
Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine:
add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords);
so that true random number generator device drivers can add a entropy
to the system. Drivers that use this can be found in the latest release
of ocf-linux, an asynchronous crypto implementation for linux based on
the *BSD Cryptographic Framework.
http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/
Adding this can dramatically improve the performance of /dev/random on
small embedded systems which do not generate much entropy.
People will not apply any kind of such changes.
Both OCF and acrypto already handle all RNG cases - no need for any kind
of userspace daemon or entropy (re)injection mechanism.
Anyone who want to use HW randomness may use OCF/acrypto mechanism.
For example here is patch to enable acrypto support for hw_random.c
It is very simple and support only upto 4 bytes request, of course it
is not interested for anyone, but it is only 2-minutes example: