[PATCH v2 10/10] cmd: rng: Add support for selecting RNG device

Sughosh Ganu sughosh.ganu at linaro.org
Wed Mar 2 05:56:31 CET 2022


hi Simon,

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 20:29, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sughosh,
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 05:07, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > The 'rng' u-boot command is used for printing a select number of
> > random bytes on the console. Currently, the RNG device from which the
> > random bytes are read is fixed. However, a platform can have multiple
> > RNG devices, one example being qemu, which has a virtio RNG device and
> > the RNG pseudo device through the TPM chip.
> >
> > Extend the 'rng' command so that the user can provide the RNG device
> > number from which the random bytes are to be read. This will be the
> > device index under the RNG uclass.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> > Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since V1:
> > * Changed the help text to show order of the parameters passed
> >   to the rng command, based on review comment from Heinrich
> >
> >  cmd/rng.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Please add a test for the command and also add doc/usage

We already have a test for the RNG uclass, which is basically doing
the exact same thing. Do we still need one for the command? Or is it
for testing the command parameters?

-sughosh

>
> Regards,
> Simon


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