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... Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomK7bHv3jo_f_pLLJCO-dfJC0AqtQWi2EMpiP6xaENwrg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32C3BF80-C600-455C-9467-7C1D50D49BFB@FreeBSD.org> References: <201410302121.s9ULLsEw055630@svn.freebsd.org> <sii2-e10i-wny@vfemail.net> <86egtl4vgi.fsf@nine.des.no> <32C3BF80-C600-455C-9467-7C1D50D49BFB@FreeBSD.org>
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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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