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Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2] target-arm: Implement BCM2835 hardware RNG
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2] target-arm: Implement BCM2835 hardware RNG |
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Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:38:27 +0000 |
On 17 February 2017 at 12:54, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 February 2017 at 21:08, Marcin Chojnacki <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Recent vanilla Raspberry Pi kernels started to make use of
>> the hardware random number generator in BCM2835 SoC. As a
>> result, those kernels wouldn't work anymore under QEMU
>> but rather just freeze during the boot process.
>>
>> This patch implements a trivial BCM2835 compatible RNG,
>> and adds it as a peripheral to BCM2835 platform, which
>> allows to boot a vanilla Raspberry Pi kernel under Qemu.
>
> So this looks good to me (other than the rand issue which
> I just posted a patch for).
Dan's reviewed the fix for the rand issue so I'm going to
apply this to target-arm.next. Thanks!
-- PMM