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Re: [PATCH v7] hw/i386: pass RNG seed via setup_data entry


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] hw/i386: pass RNG seed via setup_data entry
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:00:42 +0200
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On 7/21/22 14:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Tiny machines optimized for fast boot time generally don't use EFI,
which means a random seed has to be supplied some other way. For this
purpose, Linux (≥5.20) supports passing a seed in the setup_data table
with SETUP_RNG_SEED, specially intended for hypervisors, kexec, and
specialized bootloaders. The linked commit shows the upstream kernel
implementation.

At Paolo's request, we don't pass these to versioned machine types ≤7.0.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/tip/tip/c/68b8e9713c8
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

LGTM.

Paolo



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