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Investigate if rpi4 has rndr register support, and whether that is a configuration setting for rng-tools's rngd #128

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jonesmz opened this issue Jan 17, 2022 · 0 comments
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Investigate if rpi4 has rndr register support, and whether that is a configuration setting for rng-tools's rngd #128

jonesmz opened this issue Jan 17, 2022 · 0 comments
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jonesmz commented Jan 17, 2022 •
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Jan 17 14:04:48 GenPi64 rngd[297]: Initializing available sources
Jan 17 14:04:48 GenPi64 rngd[297]: [hwrng ]: Initialized
Jan 17 14:04:48 GenPi64 rngd[297]: [rndr ]: No HW SUPPORT
Jan 17 14:04:48 GenPi64 rngd[297]: [rndr ]: Initialization Failed

RNDR is a CPU register providing a random number. The question here is whether this is

  1. Actually present on the rpi4. It might not be.
  2. If present on rpi4, is this a setting that can only be enabled when the package is built? Or is it a runtime detection?
@samip5 samip5 added the help wanted Extra attention is needed label Jan 22, 2024
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