From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 16 17:14:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B56137B479; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13wa8j-0000AR-00; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:16:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3A1486ED.2568B51@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:16:29 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... References: <11485.974210886@critter> <20001114144613.B88888@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20001114224505.A4195@roaming.cacheboy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adrian Chadd wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > 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 ? > > > > 386'en might still have a place for small embedded products but I'm > proabably going to be flamed when I say I think FreeBSD-current isn't > very suited to "embedded 386 with tiny everything" applications. Of course it is. You'd be astonished the tiny amounts of cpu power applied to a lot of ordinary tasks like small routers and such. FreeBSD on 386-class devices is entirely appropriate for any number of such devices, especially with companies like GE making actual appliances (washers, dryers, microwave ovens) that have HPNA or powerline IP networking built in. OK, so it was a candle rather than a flamethrower. It should be made simple to compile in a much less random randomdev for applications that do not need high-quality entropy, like the IP stack on your dishwasher. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message