Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:39:50 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) |
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons, > which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt > instructions.
This is incorrect, because it implies that a user would want to use the 'xstore' feature at full speed -- which would dominate the CPU, drastically slowing down the applications that are actually doing work.
As I mentioned in another message, VIA xstore support should be removed from hw_random.c and moved completely to userspace rngd.
Jeff
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