Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2021-03-12

Re: [PATCH] hwrng: bcm2835: set quality to 1000

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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-03-04 22:28:40
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On 3/4/21 7:11 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 10:29 +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
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Hi Herbert,
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El 3 mar 2021, a las 10:20, Herbert Xu [off-list ref] escribió:

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
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I ran rngtest and this is what I got:
This is meaningless except for sources that have not been whitened.

Your justification needs to be based on what the hardware does or
is documented to do.
Ok, so I guess that we’re never setting that value to anything since there’s
no public documentation about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
@Florian, is there a way you might be able to get the official value?
I will be looking into the documentation this weekend and let you know
whether we can change the driver's quality accordingly.
-- 
Florian
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