From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>,
Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question...
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:16:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DD3036.4020107@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c6601c9b894$756e4000$f9b5a8c0@pii350>
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Readme say :
> "This daemon attempts to collect real randomness from fluctuations of
> high-frequency clocks on a PC's mainboard. The basic assumption is that
> mainboard and CPU are clocked by two separate physical clocks."
> How large is this basic assumption true, on x86, on other arch?
Isn't the cpu frequency normally a phase-locked multiple of the
mainboard bus frequency?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 18:30 IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM question Robin Getz
2009-04-06 18:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06 18:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-06 18:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 8:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-06 19:22 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-06 19:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-06 19:01 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-06 22:09 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2009-04-06 23:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 21:58 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 22:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 0:16 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-07 0:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 11:16 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 14:57 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-07 21:39 ` Chris Peterson
2009-04-07 22:30 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-08 21:53 ` Gilles Espinasse
2009-04-08 23:16 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-04-09 4:24 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-07 21:44 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-08 19:51 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-09 13:54 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-09 17:00 ` Matt Mackall
2009-04-10 0:41 ` Robin Getz
2009-04-10 1:29 ` Chris Peterson
2009-04-10 2:27 ` Matt Mackall
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