From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 24 8:28:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rebel.net.au (rebel.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DC214DD7 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkenn@rebel.net.au) Received: from 203.20.69.78 (dialup-8.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.78]) by rebel.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA25764 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:57:02 +0930 Received: (qmail 49866 invoked from network); 24 Jul 1999 15:26:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (kkenn@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 1999 15:26:29 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:56:28 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway Reply-To: kkenn@rebel.net.au To: Mark Murray Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: rndcontrol and SMP In-Reply-To: <199907241346.PAA58793@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > >What is needed to make this support a more sensible number of IRQs? > > > > Mainly changing the ioctl and its clients (rndcontrol only?) to supply > > more bits. > > I am currently rewriting /dev/random (and rndcontrol). When you say rewriting, do you mean syncing with the version of the code in Linux (1.04, instead of our 0.95) or actually rewriting? If the latter, I'm curious as to what your aims are. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message