Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:07:49 -0000 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r346250 - in head: share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/libkern sys/sys Message-ID: <310a420ee0b9e12249979d89dc4fa0d4cac5a8dc.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqwfdPnr3HBAw6=YdPW_0yLsS4OpJMhiqFxWSM6BVJ-Zw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201904151840.x3FIeaEQ009242@repo.freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2D9NQQKwVx5MhCfasQ82x7C9s6mj5kXuDE1oogrQeoJ5A@mail.gmail.com> <CAHSQbTAfwYcLenBxg4ZB13P03S%2BTYEM1-xy3BYsSWJ49hBWLZA@mail.gmail.com> <CAG6CVpXwOhSpmCT1SShvEOZAdjbQSk5xSzk%2BLk8c5fMpnhSKQw@mail.gmail.com> <CAG6CVpUqy75_iEU-OwC21LOQFrXTO7rMz3B4iHi7GBTfsqK_5w@mail.gmail.com> <20190416150352.c604a280368ccb2992a861e8@bidouilliste.com> <CANCZdfqwfdPnr3HBAw6=YdPW_0yLsS4OpJMhiqFxWSM6BVJ-Zw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 07:18 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 7:04 AM Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:54:56 -0700 > > Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 5:53 PM Conrad Meyer <cem@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
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