Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:51:38 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r253786 - in head/sys: dev/random modules/padlock_rng modules/rdrand_rng modules/yarrow_rng Message-ID: <20130730185138.GB63635@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20130729214315.GA27225@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <201307292058.r6TKwA56031193@svn.freebsd.org> <20130729214315.GA27225@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:43:15PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:58:10PM +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > Author: obrien > > Date: Mon Jul 29 20:58:09 2013 > > New Revision: 253786 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/253786 > > > > Log: > > > > * If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present > > then the creation of /dev/random is postponed until next > > random_adaptor is kldload'ed. > > I don't use modules. What is the magic I need to add to my > kernel config files? Perhaps, an entry in src/UPDATING is > needed. Hi Steve, >From the src/UPDATING entry :-) For example, to use Yarrow, add "options YARROW_RNG" to your kernel config. For hardware backed RNGs, use either "RDRAND_RNG" or "PADLOCK_RNG" options. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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