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The RISC-V Server Platform specification defines a standardized set of hardware and sofware capabilities, that portable system software, such as operating systems and hypervisors, can rely on being present in a RISC-V server platform.
https://jira.riscv.org/browse/RVC-6
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HPER_080: require RNG #14

Open andreiw opened 3 weeks ago

andreiw commented 3 weeks ago

Require hardware feature to create high quality random numbers. As per UEFI spec this capability should then be exposed by instance of EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL with at least one EFI RNG Algorithm supported.

andreiw commented 3 weeks ago

Operating Systems use the EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL for entropy generation capabilities during early boot.