[PATCH 1/2] doc: board: beagle: am62x_beagleplay: Delete SW_PRNG flag for OPTEE
Nishanth Menon
nm at ti.com
Tue Dec 5 16:22:26 CET 2023
On 08:46-20231205, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 12/4/23 1:29 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On 15:59-20231201, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> > > Delete the flag CFG_WITH_SOFTWARE_PRNG as it's not necessary/ boot
> > > requirement for this SoC
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dhruva Gole <d-gole at ti.com>
> > > ---
> > > doc/board/beagle/am62x_beagleplay.rst | 1 -
> > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/doc/board/beagle/am62x_beagleplay.rst b/doc/board/beagle/am62x_beagleplay.rst
> > > index 7784e62b0b71..50d7d3c620d7 100644
> > > --- a/doc/board/beagle/am62x_beagleplay.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/board/beagle/am62x_beagleplay.rst
> > > @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ Set the variables corresponding to this platform:
> > > # we dont use any extra TFA parameters
> > > unset TFA_EXTRA_ARGS
> > > export OPTEE_PLATFORM=k3-am62x
> > > - export OPTEE_EXTRA_ARGS="CFG_WITH_SOFTWARE_PRNG=y"
> > > .. include:: ../ti/am62x_sk.rst
> > > :start-after: .. am62x_evm_rst_include_start_build_steps
> > > --
> > > 2.34.1
> > >
> > NAK. RNG is needed to seed standard distros.
>
> You have this backwards, setting WITH_SOFTWARE_PRNG=y forces the SW
> RNG, disabling the HW RNG. Without this line the HW RNG is the default.
That is not the rationale with which the series was posted. I would
prefer we use HW RNG by default. but as I understand there are a bunch
of f/w bugs preventing us from doing so. if they are resolved, then the
commit message argument should be that the bugs are fixed, so we can
easily use then with f/w version x.y.z onwards.
--
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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