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Andre Przywara
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At the moment we probe for the Random Number Generator SMCCC service, and use that in the core code (arch_get_random). However the hardware entropy can also be useful to access from userland, and be it to assess its quality. Register a platform device when the SMCCC TRNG service is detected, to allow a hw_random driver to hook onto this. The function registering the device is deliberately made in a way which allows expansion, so other services that could be exposed via a platform device (or some other interface), can be added here easily. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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