On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:39 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:42:05PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of > > > throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing > > > it in user space please let me know. > > > > While raw bits reading from hw_random on the fastest > > VIA boards can exceed 55mbits per second > > [above quite was taken from VIA C3 Nehemiah analysis], > > it is not evaluated in rngd and is not written > > back to the /dev/random. > > Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me. I cant, noone writes 55mbit into it, but HW RNG drivers could. :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski
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