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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Standardizing an MSR or other hypercall to get an RNG seed?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:18:20 -0700
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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