From: Vinod <vkoul@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:02:04 +0530
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On 19-06-18, 22:28, 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@kernel.org>
> 
> Is this really a pseudo-RNG? If so it needs to be moved over to
> the algif_rng interface.
> 
> hwrng is for true hardware RNGs only, because it may be directly
> fed into /dev/random.

I am trying to find how how much random output this hardware generates.

Meanwhile, can you please point out examples/Documentation for algif_rng
and if any test tools for this?

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod