Re: [PATCH 0/5] Feed entropy pool via high-resolution clocksources

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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:38:43AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> It sounds to me like, if its desireous to bypass the entropy pool, then we
> should bypass the /dev/random path altogether.  Why not write a hwrng driver
> that can export access to the rdrand instruction via a misc device.

I presume the rdrand instruction can be used from user-space
directly.

Cheers,
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