Re: JZ4780 RNG and entropy depletion

2016-08-14 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Sonntag, 14. August 2016, 01:33:32 CEST schrieb Jeffrey Walton: Hi Jeffrey, > Hi Everyone, > > I have a MIPSEL ci20 dev board for testing. The board has a hardware > based rng, but its suffering entropy depletion. I have Debian's > rng-tools package installed. > > The board lacks

JZ4780 RNG and entropy depletion

2016-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a MIPSEL ci20 dev board for testing. The board has a hardware based rng, but its suffering entropy depletion. I have Debian's rng-tools package installed. The board lacks /dev/hwrng. /dev/random blocks indefinitely after draining the device. "Indefinitely" may not be