On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:54:57PM -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > OpenSSL uses the operating system to get entropy. If AMD wants Linux > to support its on-chip random number generator, it needs to write a > driver that replaces /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
...or feeds into them. Sufficient but not necessary. If AMD have released spec.s in a manner compatible with the kernel license and development model then someone else could write that driver. Some would say that is the preferred method. > In addition, Intel has been playing nice and getting its code in the > openssl distribution, as a set of patches that were integrated not too > long ago. Nobody has submitted such a patch for the Geode to my > knowledge (I'm not god of the request tracker, but most mails sent to > r...@openssl.org > are forwarded to the -dev list; I've not seen any patches come in). > (i.e.: Intel is doing strategic positioning that AMD is not.) That's smart of Intel. But again, if AMD have released spec.s under liberal terms then maybe they think they *are* positioning their product, and nobody has picked up on it yet. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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