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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of
 failing probe
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:02:51 +0000
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> bootloader configuration) - for a lot of applications random
> generation doesn't help that much as entropy is hard to come by.

This is an x86 platform - plenty of entropy from the tsc etc.