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Message-ID: <20221001160910.GB13443@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:09:10 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: allow firmware to pass RNG seed to kernel

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:01:38PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Nearly all other firmware environments have some way of passing a RNG
> seed to initialize the RNG: DTB's rng-seed, EFI's RNG protocol, m68k's
> bootinfo block, x86's setup_data, and so forth. This adds something
> similar for MIPS, which will allow various firmware environments,
> bootloaders, and hypervisors to pass an RNG seed to initialize the
> kernel's RNG.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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