Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:46:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <20001114144613.B88888@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <11485.974210886@critter> References: <11485.974210886@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > If no /entropy is found it takes a full minute to do the randomdev > seeding during boot on a P5/133. > > Has anybody run a 486 or 386 under current recently ? Yes, my only -current machine is a 486. I gave up waiting for the randomdev seeding to complete. It's lucky I'm only a docs committer and therefore not terribly important I run -current I suppose. :-) I'm not going to get involved in the argument about whether to say "stick with 4.x on old machines" though, I don't have any strong feelings either way. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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