svn commit: r346250 - in head: share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/libkern sys/sys

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 7:04 AM Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:54:56 -0700
> Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 5:53 PM Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > E.g., the CI infrastructure for
> > > Riscv/Arm is/was generating minimal filesystem images and not
> > > populating /boot/entropy.
> >
> > I should add, I say "is/was" because I have a PR out which may address
> > the problem: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/pull/31
> >
> > Best,
> > Conrad
>
>  It's not only CI, all release images (memstick, iso) don't have
> a /boot/entropy.
>  Also all arm/arm64 image don't have this file too.
>  If /boot/entropy is needed and isn't present loader(8) should gather
> some entropy and pass this to the kernel for the first boot.
>

Maybe we need to bootstrap the entropy file as part of buildworld. I'm not
sure if the loader can find enough...

Warner

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> Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at freebsd.org>
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