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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen Hackathon] new PV drivers
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:39:54 -0400
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On 06/09/2014 10:33 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:30 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 06/09/2014 05:42 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:56 +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>>>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 12:47, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Present (by memory):
>>>>>> - Julien Grall,
>>>>>> - Stefano Stabellini,
>>>>>> - Ian Campbell,
>>>>>> - Roger Pau Monne,
>>>>>> - Dario Faggioli,
>>>>>> - Andrii Tseglytskyi,
>>>>>> - David Vrabel,
>>>>>> - Konrad Wilk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * What new PV devices do we need? What has been done already?
>>>>> I missed this session, but was wondering about an entropy driver.
>>>>> We're integrating an OCaml SSL/TLS into MirageOS, and it's not clear
>>>>> how PV guests should go about getting a strong source of entropy from
>>>>> the outside world in a reasonably portable way.
>>
>> Is entropy provided by drivers/char/random.c not sufficient?
> This is about providing entropy for that driver to consume.
>
> VMs typically don't have much hardware and therefore don't have much
> entropy to seed the pool with.

So this is about seeding, not feeding? (sorry, did not mean to start 
rhyming ;-)).

-boris