[PATCH 1/2] efi: add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 04:22:43 PDT 2016


On Wed, 19 Oct, at 12:13:55PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 19 October 2016 at 12:09, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
>
> > I think to some extent this mush be treated as an ABI, given cases like
> > kexec.
> >
> 
> Perhaps, yes. That would also allow GRUB or other EFI aware
> bootloaders to generate the seed.

If we're going to go down this route, we should try and get the GUID
into the UEFI spec.



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