random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 16 19:03:10 UTC 2013


On Friday, August 16, 2013 1:29:04 pm Arthur Mesh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:03:43AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> > > If so, I'll ask obrien@ to commit it and note the change in
> > > UPDATING. Also, how do we deal with i386/amd64 specific devices in
> > > LINT?
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean by that.
> 
> I thought it would be prudent to add rdrand_rng/padlock_rng devices in
> to LINT kernel. But since both of these devices are platform specific
> (amd64/i386), I am not sure about the preferred way to accomplish that.

You can put the relevant entries in sys/{amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES.  LINT
is generated by concatenating sys/conf/NOTES and sys/${arch}/conf/NOTES.

-- 
John Baldwin


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