On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> wrote: > /dev/random uses the get_cycles() function to obtain entropy in addition to > jiffies and the event value of hardware events. > > Typically the high-resolution timer of get_cycles delivers the majority of > entropy, because the event value is quite deterministic and jiffies are very > coarse. > > However, on the following architectures, get_cycles will return 0:
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