[PATCH 4/4] Few updates to documentation

Jussi Kivilinna jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi
Wed Oct 28 18:55:57 CET 2015


* doc/gcrypt.text: Add mention of new 'intel-fast-shld' hw feature
flag; Add mention of x86 RDRAND support in rndhw.
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Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi>
---
 doc/gcrypt.texi |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/gcrypt.texi b/doc/gcrypt.texi
index 3450bb2..facdf65 100644
--- a/doc/gcrypt.texi
+++ b/doc/gcrypt.texi
@@ -556,6 +556,7 @@ are
 @item padlock-sha
 @item padlock-mmul
 @item intel-cpu
+ at item intel-fast-shld
 @item intel-bmi2
 @item intel-ssse3
 @item intel-pclmul
@@ -5610,9 +5611,9 @@ that system and is the only gathering module available for that OS.
 
 @item rndhw
 Extra module to collect additional entropy by utilizing a hardware
-random number generator.  As of now the only supported hardware RNG is
-the Padlock engine of VIA (Centaur) CPUs.  It is not available in FIPS
-mode.
+random number generator.  As of now the supported hardware RNG is
+the Padlock engine of VIA (Centaur) CPUs and x86 CPUs with the RDRAND
+instruction.  It is not available in FIPS mode.
 
 @end table
 




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