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

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Mar 04 2021 - 17:28:40 EST


On 3/4/21 7:11 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> 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?

I will be looking into the documentation this weekend and let you know
whether we can change the driver's quality accordingly.
--
Florian