From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 10:57: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E74437C1A7 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (grolsch.ai [209.88.68.214]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0260852; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:57:01 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <394FB06D.93B5BD7F@vangelderen.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:57:01 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is this architecture dependent? References: <200006201722.NAA15674@rac4.wam.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Howard wrote: > > In message <394FA4CE.1B8620AB@vangelderen.org>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" write > s: > > You are right and work is under way to break out this functionality in > > a MI driver. Search the mailing list archives for details. A first > > attempt can be found at: > > > > http://jeroen.vangelderen.org/FreeBSD/misc_device/ > > > > MarkM will soon import a variant of this with his excellent Yarrow > > work. > > Ahh, excellent. I was hoping to see something like this. > > Will random and urandom also end up therE? Broken out into their own device, yes. As a bonus we'll provide a better PRNG construct named Yarrow. Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen o _ _ _ jeroen@vangelderen.org _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message