Re: [PATCH] hwrng: bcm2835: set quality to 1000

From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne
Date: Thu Mar 04 2021 - 10:13:24 EST


On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 10:29 +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> > El 3 mar 2021, a las 10:20, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran rngtest and this is what I got:
> >
> > This is meaningless except for sources that have not been whitened.
> >
> > Your justification needs to be based on what the hardware does or
> > is documented to do.
>
> Ok, so I guess that we’re never setting that value to anything since there’s
> no public documentation about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

@Florian, is there a way you might be able to get the official value?

Regards,
Nicolas


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