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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:07:11 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark R V Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo...
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On 2 November 2014 05:08, Mark R V Murray <markm@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2 Nov 2014, at 12:51, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
>>
>> Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net> writes:
>>> I have a minimalistic kernel where everything is pushed to a module for
>>> easier/faster debugging before kload. As its config has no |device rand=
om|
>>> loading random.ko fails because nothing provides random_adaptors [...]
>>
>> Yes, there is work to be done there.  Ideally, the random module should
>> include the random_adaptors framework and /dev/random itself, while
>> Yarrow and Fortuna should be separate modules which can coexist, rather
>> than mutually exclusive kernel options.
>
> Compiling both into the kernel is possible, but tricky, so I didn=E2=80=
=99t do it
> this time round. The reason for the trickiness is that randomdev_soft.c g=
ets
> compiled for each hash (Yarrow, Fortuna) with hash-specific #defines set.
>
> Not insoluble, but I just didn=E2=80=99t get to it.
>
> I=E2=80=99ll fix the random_adaptors bit shortly.

Also as a side note - the kernel on the embedded MIPS boards here are
now > 1MiB compressed now because loading random as a module isn't
supported or working right. :(



-adrian



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