Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        macro@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, dave.taht@gmail.com,
        blogic@openwrt.org, andrewmcgr@gmail.com, smueller@chronox.de,
        geert@linux-m68k.org, tg@mirbsd.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness
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On Mon, 3 February 2014 11:37:29 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> So we could take the struct pt_regs which we get from get_irq_regs(),
> XOR them together and use them to feed into input[2] amd input[3] in
> add_interrupt_randomness().  Or some other way of distributing the
> values of all of the irq registers into the __u32 input[4] array.
> 
> That would probably be a good and useful thing to do.  Was that
> basically what you were suggesting?

Yes.

Jörn

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