From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Entropy on boot
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:02:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621210236.GA30220@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050621195047.B14716@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:50:47PM +0100, Paul Warren wrote:
> Unless I've missed something, that doesn't solve the problem for an
> out-of-the-box Linux distro, which expects to read from /dev/random.
I guess out-of-the-box Linux distros aren't intended for entroy-starved
environments.
So, I guess you can fix your distro to use the driver that UML provides
or you can put up with the starvation. The hwrng driver is the right
solution, and is far preferable to whacking a bunch into random.c.
That would never make it anywhere near mainline, so you would have a
choice of dumping that into every UML pool you build or fixing your
filesystems to use the rngtools.
Jef
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-20 19:25 [uml-devel] Entropy on boot Paul Warren
2005-06-20 21:16 ` Jeff Dike
2005-06-21 18:50 ` Paul Warren
2005-06-21 21:02 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-06-21 21:19 ` Chris Lightfoot
2005-06-21 22:13 ` Paul Warren
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