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Rusty Russell
f7f510ec19 virtio: An entropy device, as suggested by hpa.
Note that by itself, having a "hardware" random generator does very
little: you should probably run "rngd" in your guest to feed this into
the kernel entropy pool.

Included:
	virtio_rng: dont use vmalloced addresses for virtio

	If virtio_rng is build as a module, random_data is an address
	in vmalloc space. As virtio expects guest real addresses, this
	can cause any kind of funny behaviour, so lets allocate
	random_data dynamically with kmalloc.

	Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-30 15:09:44 +10:00
David Brownell
537878d2c9 hw_random doc updates
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current:

 - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the
   current code:  it's a framework now, a "core" with a small
   sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to.
   Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end.

 - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file
   and better explains what this really does.

Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy
pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with
that important task.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Olof Johansson
0d08a84770 [POWERPC] pasemi: Broaden specific references to 1682M
There will be more product numbers in the future than just PA6T-1682M,
but they will share much of the features. Remove some of the explicit
references and compatibility checks with 1682M, and replace most of them
with the more generic term "PWRficient".

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
2007-11-29 22:30:47 -06:00
Yinghai Lu
e199ece447 x86_64: Geode HW Random Number Generator depends on X86_32
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 18:37:13 -07:00
Olof Johansson
b8cb34481e pasemi: hardware rng driver
Driver for the on-chip hardware random number generator on PA Semi
PA6T-1682M.

Signed-off-by: Egor Martovetsky <egor@pasemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
Jan Beulich
fed806f407 [PATCH] allow hwrandom core to be a module
Despite it being small, there should be the option of making it a
module...

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
Michael Buesch
ebc915ad26 [PATCH] Add TI OMAP CPU family HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
d7174bcb91 [PATCH] Add ixp4xx HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
1352336357 [PATCH] Add VIA HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
ef5d862734 [PATCH] Add Geode HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
96d63c0297 [PATCH] Add AMD HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
ca644bd503 [PATCH] Add Intel HW RNG driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
844dd05fec [PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG core
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00