Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2

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Hi Herbert,

On 06/19/2018 05:28 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 07:42:59PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>> Qcom 8996 and later chips support prng v2 where we need to only
>> implement .read callback for hwrng.
>>
>> Add a new table for v2 which supports this and get version required for
>> driver data.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Is this really a pseudo-RNG? If so it needs to be moved over to
> the algif_rng interface.

Despite the register name (PRNG_ registers prefix) the IP is using FIPS
approved algorithm and we can claim that this is true hardware entropy
generator.

I don't think that we need to move to algif_rng.

-- 
regards,
Stan



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