From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, jeremy@xensource.com,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Virt RNG?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:07:51 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516000751.GC23721@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805160943.08788.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yes, I prepared one earlier. I was a little surprised to see that hwrng
> drivers don't contribute in any way to the entropy pool though, but now
> reading the thread I find out about rngd (not installed on my Ubuntu system,
> but available at least).
It would be easy to implement rng-tools as a kernel driver, as long as
proper in-kernel interfaces exist for it to work in an event-driven way.
I don't see what we would win over rng-tools in userspace, however.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 18:48 Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 19:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-15 20:26 ` Dor Laor
2008-05-15 20:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-15 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 20:43 ` Jeff Dike
2008-05-15 23:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 0:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2008-05-16 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 5:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 10:49 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-16 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 4:46 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-17 4:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 6:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-17 6:43 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-17 7:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-17 15:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 7:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-19 9:05 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19 9:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-19 9:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19 9:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-17 15:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-16 7:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Christian Borntraeger
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