Does /dev/random use RdRand?

[Fred .]

New Ivy Bridge processors will feature the RdRand instruction for the
hardware random number generator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand

Does /dev/random use RdRand?
Perhaps it should.

Could use CPU built-in hardware RNG to seed the entropy pool.
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