On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:16:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I would be happier if you didn't change this (or at least put it in its
> > own patch explaining why it's not going to slow down other platforms).
>
> It would essentially be a revert of 01c9348c7620 ("powerpc: Use hardware
> RNG for arch_get_random_seed_* not arch_get_random_*")
>
> Which would be ironic :)
You expect me to remember things I did 6 years ago? :)
I'll take this part out. My thinking originally was that since darn
on Microwatt is a single-cycle instruction, it would be faster to use
darn every time rather than run a software PRNG seeded from darn.
It's not critical though.
Paul.
