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Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 05:52 +0000:
> Author: adrian
> Date: Thu Nov 20 05:52:48 2014
> New Revision: 274739
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/274739
> 
> Log:
>   Include a random device.
> 
> Modified:
>   head/sys/mips/conf/MALTA
> 
> Modified: head/sys/mips/conf/MALTA
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sys/mips/conf/MALTA	Thu Nov 20 05:31:41 2014	(r274738)
> +++ head/sys/mips/conf/MALTA	Thu Nov 20 05:52:48 2014	(r274739)
> @@ -68,3 +68,4 @@ device		miibus
>  device		bpf
>  device		md
>  device		uart
> +device		random

Should we make random standard now?  We don't live in the 90's anymore,
and a system really can't function w/o randomness anymore...

I'm fine w/ making the various random mixers options, but the core
random infrastructure and /dev/u?random should be standard now...

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