In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Murray writes:
>> > I ask, as my RNG is a kld, and I want it to be as separate as possible
>> > without getting ridiculous.
>>
>> Yes. You could just cut/paste the existing mem.c driver, and remove
>> everything but the random hooks. In your init code regist
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Murray writes:
>> > > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
>> > > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
>> > > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
>> >
>> > Just edit sys/conf/majors and cla
> Yes. Each instance of make_dev() takes a cdevsw argument for the minor numbe
r
> in question. So, you could have /dev/mem read/write/ioctl etc routines
> for major 2, minor 0 and 1, while have minors 3 and 4 being installed with
> their own open/close/read/write/etc routines.
>
> Devices are
> > I ask, as my RNG is a kld, and I want it to be as separate as possible
> > without getting ridiculous.
>
> Have a look at http://jeroen.vangelderen.org/FreeBSD/misc_device .
Thanks! You have some good ideas in there; I may just borg some of them.
:-)
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Mark Murray wrote:
>
> > > > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> > > > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> > > > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
> > >
> > > Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available numb
> On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:53:18AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN,
>
> Forgot to mention, please keep in mind this needs to be MI.
> sys/kern_random.c (which was sys/i386/isa/random_machdep.c) still is
> *very* ugly from a MI point of view. Any changes to
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:53:18AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN,
Forgot to mention, please keep in mind this needs to be MI.
sys/kern_random.c (which was sys/i386/isa/random_machdep.c) still is
*very* ugly from a MI point of view. Any changes to kern_random.
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:53:18AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> device;
Why can't you just rip out the existing random stuff and put in your new
stuff -- keeping the major and minor numbers the same?
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> > I ask, as my RNG is a kld, and I want it to be as separate as possible
> > without getting ridiculous.
>
> Yes. You could just cut/paste the existing mem.c driver, and remove
> everything but the random hooks. In your init code register minors 3 and
> 4, and that's all you have to worry abo
Mark Murray wrote:
> > > > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> > > > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> > > > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
> > >
> > > Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available number
> > > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> > > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> > > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
> >
> > Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available number.
>
> You don't need one. Yo
Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mark Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> > device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> > but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
>
> Just edit sys/conf/major
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
> device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
> but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
Just edit sys/conf/majors and claim the next available number
Hi
I want to commit a new /dev/random RSN, so I'll be needing a major
device; what is the procedure for getting one? I know how to steal one,
but ISTR that this is not how it is done.
Also - Peter said something about the "mem" device needing
to only contain the /dev/mem and /mem/kmem devices, a
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