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Date:      Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:25:59 +0100
From:      Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: random(4) update causes mips compile fail | mips boot fail
Message-ID:  <618CA386-7444-4631-A69B-7FD2F22C91E6@grondar.org>
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On 7 Sep 2013, at 21:42, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> We discussed this at the dev summit. Mark asked what we'd like to do.
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> Mark - would you mind terribly adding a kernel compile option that controls that blocking default, so we can flip it on for the ARM/MIPS boards that don't have a hardware PRNG to start seeding things with?

This has some merit; but I need to thing about how to do it. Per-architecture block/no-block defaults are going to get messy unless done properly.

M
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Mark R V Murray


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