Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:47:47 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] CPU Jitter RNG |
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On 02/04/2014 01:46 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Because they're fixed frequency, and used for communication with other > devices, so accuracy matters? > > Other clocks can be tuned for performance or power reasons, but clocks > for communication must be fixed and stable. You can run e.g. your CPU > or memory a bit slower or faster, but not your Ethernet. >
But modern frequency synthesizers can do that easily.
-hpa
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