[PATCH] hwrng: bcm2835: set quality to 1000

Álvaro Fernández Rojas noltari at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 09:29:02 GMT 2021


Hi Herbert,

> El 3 mar 2021, a las 10:20, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> escribió:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>> 
>> 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)_/¯.

> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Email: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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Best regards,
Álvaro.


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