Re: [PATCH RFC v0] random: block in /dev/urandom

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-14T14:05:25Z

Hi Joshua,

Thanks a lot for the historical background.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:06 AM Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The R6000/R6000A CPU only ever existed in systems in the late 1980's that
> were fairly large, and I don't think there is a complete, working unit out
> there that can actually boot up, let alone boot a Linux kernel.

So from what you've written, it sounds like MIPS is actually not a problem here.

So the only systems we're actually talking about without a good cycle
counter are non-Amiga m68k? If so, that'd be a pretty terrific
finding. It'd mean that this idea can move forward, and we only need
to worry about some m68k museum pieces with misconfigured
userspaces...

Jason