Re: [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160
> ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") makes the assumption that the data
> in rng-seed is binary, when it is typically constructed of utf-8

Typically? Why is that?

> characters which has a bitness of roughly 6 to give appropriate
> credit due for the entropy.