diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Kconfig
index 50ed0cedb5f1..8f6a81978461 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Kconfig
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config PPC_MICROWATT
 	select PPC_ICP_NATIVE
 	select PPC_NATIVE
 	select PPC_UDBG_16550
+	select ARCH_RANDOM
 	help
           This option enables support for FPGA-based Microwatt implementations.
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Makefile
index e6885b3b2ee7..116d6d3ad3f0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/Makefile
@@ -1 +1 @@
-obj-y	+= setup.o
+obj-y	+= setup.o rng.o
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/rng.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/rng.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3d8ee6eb7dad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/microwatt/rng.c
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Derived from arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/rng.c, which is:
+ * Copyright 2013, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt)	"microwatt-rng: " fmt
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <asm/archrandom.h>
+#include <asm/cputable.h>
+#include <asm/machdep.h>
+
+#define DARN_ERR 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFul
+
+int microwatt_get_random_darn(unsigned long *v)
+{
+	unsigned long val;
+
+	/* Using DARN with L=1 - 64-bit conditioned random number */
+	asm volatile(PPC_DARN(%0, 1) : "=r"(val));
+
+	if (val == DARN_ERR)
+		return 0;
+
+	*v = val;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static __init int rng_init(void)
+{
+	unsigned long val;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+		if (microwatt_get_random_darn(&val)) {
+			ppc_md.get_random_seed = microwatt_get_random_darn;
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
+
+	pr_warn("Unable to use DARN for get_random_seed()\n");
+
+	return -EIO;
+}
+machine_subsys_initcall(, rng_init);