Am Samstag, den 22.10.2005, 02:52 +0200 schrieb Blaisorblade:
Obviously, the real hardware generators block when there is not enough
entropy, and rngd was written for them. I think there are two ways of
fixing the problem:
(1) Change rngd. If it sees -EAGAIN, it sleeps for a moment. This
On Friday 21 October 2005 20:24, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
Hi list,
I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it
sometimes eats up all host CPU time. In particular, I can see that the
UML system does a (blocking) read on /dev/hwrng,
Could you please elaborate on that? Who
Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 20:42 +0200 schrieb Blaisorblade:
On Friday 21 October 2005 20:24, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
Hi list,
I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it
sometimes eats up all host CPU time. In particular, I can see that the
UML system does a
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:52:00AM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
Proper solution: use a separate _host_ thread, which either sits blocked in a
blocking read or calls poll() on the host /dev/random, and have it do the
work.
Yeah, unfortunately. The real right thing to do is give the host
