Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:36:27 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, <svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org>, <amesh@juniper.net>, <stevek@juniper.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r284959 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/ubsec sys/dev/virtio/random sy... Message-ID: <22423.1435862187@chaos> In-Reply-To: <5238A439-F25E-40F1-96D4-140460003982@FreeBSD.org> References: <201506301700.t5UH0jPq001498@svn.freebsd.org> <13981.1435792025@chaos> <5238A439-F25E-40F1-96D4-140460003982@FreeBSD.org>
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Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> - Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm > >> selection is the way to go. > > > > Errr we use that and need it. > > Please put it back. > > Do you really need full the plugability (including run-time selection > of algorithm), or do you just need to have KLD modules back? We need KLD for sure, and the ablity to leave out a mixer like yarrow/fortuna - we do not expect any of our customers (except those forced to by govt) to use that arrangement though. > I intend to do the latter, but in a different way. The adaptor code > and run-time section was a locking liability. > > > Whether we agree with NIST's ideas about how randomness should be > > handled or not, we need to to be able to comply and we do not want to > > burn their desired arrangement into our kernels. > > Sound like you just need to be able to select a single KLD at boot time? Quite possibly. Will confirm... Thanks --sjg
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