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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for Graviton TRNG
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On 6/7/19, 7:59 AM, " Ali Saidi" <alisaidi@amazon.com> wrote:



On 6/5/19, 7:20 AM, "Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:

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?

This interface allows us to provide the functionality from both EL2 and EL3 and support multiple different types of our instances which we unfortunately can't do with virt-io.

Will,

Any additional comments?

Mark,

Do you know when you'll have a chance to rebase arm64/smccc-cleanup?

Thanks,
Ali


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