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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:07:19 -0000
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        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
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Hey Adrian,

As discussed with John and Warner upthread, I hope to have a patch out
for review later today to give folks a knob to disable this.  It may
even make sense to default it on, at least for !x86.  I am happy to CC
you on review if you like.

Take care,
Conrad

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:22 AM Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
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> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 11:40, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Author: cem
>> Date: Mon Apr 15 18:40:36 2019
>> New Revision: 346250
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346250
>>
>> Log:
>>   random(4): Block read_random(9) on initial seeding
>
>
> Sniffle, this broke on my mips boards whilst debugging why I'm seeing tra=
nsmit crashes and other bad behaviours. if_arge has some hacks to randomly =
allocate mac addresses if the board doesn't supply them. This is going to b=
e a common thing to deal with during board bring-up before you do things li=
ke, I dunno, make storage work. I'm going to fix if_arge to use the new API=
 to generate MAC addresses but there'll be other places where this will bit=
e you.
>
> Please reconsider this a bit. I know people are trying to improve our sec=
urity and cryptography support. But some of us are trying to use FreeBSD co=
de in fun places and maybe occasionally do some more porting work. :-)
>
>
> -adrian
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>





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