Subject: Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of failing probe

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:02:51 +0000

> bootloader configuration) - for a lot of applications random
> generation doesn't help that much as entropy is hard to come by.

This is an x86 platform - plenty of entropy from the tsc etc.