Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on manyarchitectures

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 17:13:53 EST


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 08:50:17AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On the system with good power management and idle cpus (many of them), I'd
> expect most of the IPs to be pretty much equal -- arch specific version of
> "enter low power state" (mwait on recent intel machines, for example).
>
> Would it make sense to mix the other registers, too?

Hmm.... Is there a useful way that we can do this in an
architecture-independent way?

- Ted
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