Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Jul 16 2014 - 18:41:25 EST


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My personal preference is to defer this until some user shows up. I
> think that even this would be too complicated for KASLR, which is the
> only extremely early-boot user that I found.
>
> Hmm. Does the prandom stuff want to use this?

prandom isn't even using rdrand. I'd suggest fixing this separately,
or even just waiting until someone goes and deletes prandom.

--Andy
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