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

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 07:18 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
Isn't a file full of data which is distributed in identical form to
everyone the exact opposite of entropy?

-- Ian