From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 15 9:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC1F37B4CF; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07105; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:36:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA76aa7m; Wed Nov 15 10:35:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13021; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:39:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011151739.KAA13021@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... To: adrian@FreeBSD.ORG (Adrian Chadd) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:38:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001114224505.A4195@roaming.cacheboy.net> from "Adrian Chadd" at Nov 14, 2000 10:45:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. That's a problem with FreeBSD-current, not a problem with "embedded 386 with tiny everything". I'm reminded when SVR4s footprint first went to 8M of RAM. I also find it amusing that I can get an old SVR4.0.2 ES/MP, and load it on both SMP boxes, and on 6M 386 boxes, when I am quickly becoming unable to do the same for FreeBSD-current. I guess this is inevitable, as security is increased, since the most secure computer is one which doesn't run... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message