[PATCH v2 6/9] powerpc/microwatt: Add support for hardware random number generator

[Nicholas Piggin]

Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of June 20, 2021 12:36 am:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 01:08:51PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Excerpts from Paul Mackerras's message of June 18, 2021 1:47 pm:
>> > Microwatt's hardware RNG is accessed using the DARN instruction.
>> 
>> I think we're getting a platforms/book3s soon with the VAS patches, 
>> might be a place to add the get_random_darn function.
>> 
>> Huh, DARN is unprivileged right?
> 
> It is, that's the whole point: to make it very very cheap for user
> software it has to be an unprivileged instruction.

Right, I was just doing a double-take. In that case we should enable it 
in the pseries random number code as well, so it really would be a 
generic isa 3.0 function that all (microwatt, powernv, pseries) could
use AFAIKS.

Thanks,
Nick