On 09/17/2014 10:50 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > I would like to standardize on a very simple protocol by which a guest > OS can obtain an RNG seed early in boot. > > The main design requirements are: > > - The interface should be very easy to use. Linux, at least, will > want to use it extremely early in boot as part of kernel ASLR. This > means that PCI and ACPI will not work. How do non-virtual systems get entropy this early? RDRAND/Padlock? Truerand? Could hypervisors and simulators simply make sure these work? Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization