Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > > Ultimately, though, we need to find *some* way to fix userspace's > assumptions that they can always get high quality entropy in early > boot, or we need to get over people's distrust of Intel and RDRAND. > Otherwise, future performance improvements in any part of the system > which reduces the number of interrupts is always going to potentially > result in somebody's misconfigured system or badly written > applications to fail to boot. :-(
Can we perhaps artifically increase the interrupt rate while the CRNG is not initialised? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
