On Jul 16, 2014 4:00 PM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 07/16/2014 03:40 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> My personal preference is to defer this until some user shows up. I > >> think that even this would be too complicated for KASLR, which is the > >> only extremely early-boot user that I found. > >> > >> Hmm. Does the prandom stuff want to use this? > > > > prandom isn't even using rdrand. I'd suggest fixing this separately, > > or even just waiting until someone goes and deletes prandom. > > > > prandom is exactly the opposite; it is designed for when we need > possibly low quality random numbers very quickly. RDRAND is actually > too slow. I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding. --Andy > > -hpa > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
