Re: Standardizing an MSR or other hypercall to get an RNG seed?

H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-22T14:18:20Z

On 09/22/2014 07:17 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> It could, but how would you enumerate that? A new "RDRAND-CPL-0" CPUID
> bit pretty much would be required.
>

Note that there are two things that differ: the CPL 0-ness and the
performance/exhaustibility attributes.

-hpa