By: Groo (charlie.delete@this.semiaccurate.com), August 11, 2019 6:47 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on August 11, 2019 1:13 pm wrote:
> So an actually architected rdrand instruction is very much the right thing to do. But you'd wish
> that the CPU vendors had verified it better. Intel apparently did do a good job. Nobody has shown
> any patterns in their rdrand implementation, and it's been available for a longish while.
>
Ummm....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand
Too tired to search through all the literature an posts on this one but it does appear RDRAND on Intel was not exactly lily white, pun intended.
-Charlie
> So an actually architected rdrand instruction is very much the right thing to do. But you'd wish
> that the CPU vendors had verified it better. Intel apparently did do a good job. Nobody has shown
> any patterns in their rdrand implementation, and it's been available for a longish while.
>
Ummm....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand
Too tired to search through all the literature an posts on this one but it does appear RDRAND on Intel was not exactly lily white, pun intended.
-Charlie
