svn commit: r274739 - head/sys/mips/conf

[Mark R V Murray]

> On 21 Nov 2014, at 09:22, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> Mark Murray wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:25 +0000:
>> 
>>> On 20 Nov 2014, at 08:48, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Should we make random standard now?  We don't live in the 90's anymore,
>>> and a system really can't function w/o randomness anymore???
>> 
>> There is a case to be made for making it default in all/most kernel
>> configs.
>> 
>> I disagree on making it compulsory in all cases, as very small embedded
>> systems can easily argue for not having it.
> 
> How will it talk w/ the out side world?  w/o random, No sshd, no
> https...  providing randomness is a core component of a modern OS…

There are many options, including telnet, rsh, rcp, http, ftp and serial ports.

> If you're really going for small embeded, you don't want FreeBSD,

Who are you to tell me what I want? ;-)

>> There is some compulsory infrastructure; this gets you the ???dummy???
>> driver which just blocks and never delivers anything.
> 
> Plus, you'd need to turn off the entropy boot script among other
> things…

Correct.

> If you can demonstrate a usable system w/o much modifications that
> runs w/ the dummy interface, or no boot random, that I'll drop my
> suggestion...  I'll try removing random tomorrow and see what breaks…

Quite a lot will break straight out-of-the-box right now, but I bet I
can get a system with working telnetd/rshd going in under an hour.

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Mark R V Murray