random(4) update causes mips compile fail | mips boot fail

Mark R V Murray mark at grondar.org
Sat Sep 7 21:26:03 UTC 2013


On 7 Sep 2013, at 21:42, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> We discussed this at the dev summit. Mark asked what we'd like to do.
> 
> Mark - would you mind terribly adding a kernel compile option that controls that blocking default, so we can flip it on for the ARM/MIPS boards that don't have a hardware PRNG to start seeding things with?

This has some merit; but I need to thing about how to do it. Per-architecture block/no-block defaults are going to get messy unless done properly.

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Mark R V Murray

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