Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:46:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on many architectures | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote: > /dev/random uses the get_cycles() function to obtain entropy in addition to jiffies and the event value of hardware events. > > Typically the high-resolution timer of get_cycles delivers the majority of entropy, because the event value is quite deterministic and jiffies are very coarse. > > However, on the following architectures, get_cycles will return 0:
> - M68K
Thanks, m68k is being worked on, cfr. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/9/441
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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