Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for Graviton TRNG

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 08:24:36 EST


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 08:30:57PM +0000, Ali Saidi wrote:
> AWS Graviton based systems provide an Arm SMC call in the vendor defined
> hypervisor region to read random numbers from a HW TRNG and return them to the
> guest.
>
> We've observed slower guest boot and especially reboot times due to lack of
> entropy and providing access to a TRNG is meant to address this.

Curious, but why this over something like virtio-rng?

Will