eg, maybe even something as simple as:
--- rng-tools~ 2016-06-04 21:07:26.0 -0400
+++ rng-tools 2016-06-04 21:08:53.028515054 -0400
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@
#RNGDOPTIONS="--hrng=intelfwh --fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1"
#RNGDOPTIONS="--hrng=viakernel --fill-watermark=90%
Also, it would be good to document somewhere that, --hrng=driver needs
to be omitted eg:
RNGDOPTIONS="--fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1"
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail hovers close to 4000 after
this is enabled on my Thinkpad. Without it, it hovers around between
the
Package: rng-tools
Version: 2-unofficial-mt.14-1
Tags: patch
With a fresh install on a Xeon 1226 v3, reading 52KiB from /dev/random
occurs at ~20bits/s
Adding haveged gets it up to the ~60bits/s range
But wow, adding the TPM's TRNG gets it as high as ~2.58MiB/s !
Removing haveged at this point
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