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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for Graviton TRNG
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?

Will

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