From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 14 10: 6:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C4F37B4E5; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.37] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.169 #1) id 13vhLh-000G9Y-00; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:46:13 +0000 Received: (from ben@localhost) by platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAEEkDx24561; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:46:13 GMT (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:46:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <20001114144613.B88888@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <11485.974210886@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <11485.974210886@critter> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > If no /entropy is found it takes a full minute to do the randomdev > seeding during boot on a P5/133. > > Has anybody run a 486 or 386 under current recently ? Yes, my only -current machine is a 486. I gave up waiting for the randomdev seeding to complete. It's lucky I'm only a docs committer and therefore not terribly important I run -current I suppose. :-) I'm not going to get involved in the argument about whether to say "stick with 4.x on old machines" though, I don't have any strong feelings either way. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message