From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] powerpc/microwatt: Add support for hardware random number generator
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:19:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1624176949.vsicfg0jsa.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210619143640.GX5077@gate.crashing.org>
Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of June 20, 2021 12:36 am:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 01:08:51PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Excerpts from Paul Mackerras's message of June 18, 2021 1:47 pm:
>> > Microwatt's hardware RNG is accessed using the DARN instruction.
>>
>> I think we're getting a platforms/book3s soon with the VAS patches,
>> might be a place to add the get_random_darn function.
>>
>> Huh, DARN is unprivileged right?
>
> It is, that's the whole point: to make it very very cheap for user
> software it has to be an unprivileged instruction.
Right, I was just doing a double-take. In that case we should enable it
in the pseries random number code as well, so it really would be a
generic isa 3.0 function that all (microwatt, powernv, pseries) could
use AFAIKS.
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-20 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-18 3:42 [PATCH v2 0/9] powerpc: Add support for Microwatt soft-core Paul Mackerras
2021-06-18 3:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] powerpc: Add Microwatt platform Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 3:03 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-18 3:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] powerpc: Add Microwatt device tree Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 14:26 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-06-20 12:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2021-06-21 13:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-06-18 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] powerpc/microwatt: Populate platform bus from device-tree Paul Mackerras
2021-06-18 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] powerpc/xics: Add a native ICS backend for microwatt Paul Mackerras
2021-06-18 3:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] powerpc/microwatt: Use standard 16550 UART for console Paul Mackerras
2021-06-18 7:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-18 12:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 2:58 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-08-12 13:14 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-12 16:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-06-18 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] powerpc/microwatt: Add support for hardware random number generator Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 3:08 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-19 14:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-06-20 8:19 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2021-06-18 3:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] powerpc/microwatt: Add microwatt_defconfig Paul Mackerras
2021-06-18 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] powerpc/boot: Fixup device-tree on little endian Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 3:14 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-18 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] powerpc/boot: Add a boot wrapper for Microwatt Paul Mackerras
2021-06-19 3:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-19 14:45 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] powerpc: Add support for Microwatt soft-core Segher Boessenkool
2021-06-24 14:03 ` Michael Ellerman
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