Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:31:44 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (0/4) Entropy accounting fixes |
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At 11:30 AM +0100 8/18/02, Alan Cox wrote: >Its probably true there are low bits of randomness available from such >sources providing we know the machine has a tsc, unless the I/O APIC is >clocked at a divider of the processor clock in which case our current >behaviour is probably much saner.
The clock spec for the APIC bus makes it very convenient to clock it at 16.66_ MHz, 1/2 (or some other submultiple) of the PCI clock, which of course would be highly correlated with the low bits of TSC. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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