From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: allow firmware to pass RNG seed to kernel
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:09:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221001160910.GB13443@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220930140138.575751-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:01:38PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Nearly all other firmware environments have some way of passing a RNG
> seed to initialize the RNG: DTB's rng-seed, EFI's RNG protocol, m68k's
> bootinfo block, x86's setup_data, and so forth. This adds something
> similar for MIPS, which will allow various firmware environments,
> bootloaders, and hypervisors to pass an RNG seed to initialize the
> kernel's RNG.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
applied to mips-next.
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-01 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-30 14:01 [PATCH] mips: allow firmware to pass RNG seed to kernel Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-01 16:09 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2022-10-03 22:07 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-10-03 22:30 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-06 11:28 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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