Re: PATCH: Round 2 of octeon rng

2013-10-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 22:05, William Orr wrote: I guess I misunderstood, as I thought that /dev/random dumped the entropy pool, and that /dev/arandom put the random data through a stream cipher so that grabbing random data would never block. That was true some time ago, but since at least

Re: PATCH: Round 2 of octeon rng

2013-10-23 Thread Paul Irofti
Hi William, I have an almost identical diff in my tree for a driver for octeon's RNG. On which machines did you test this? I wrote mine for DSR-500. But I remember the reads had some hick-ups. Since why I did not commit the diff until now.

Re: Make bioctl(4) print cache policy

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Mike Belopuhov m...@belopuhov.com Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:48:22 +0200 On 22 October 2013 15:22, Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl wrote: Diff below makes bioctl(4) print the cache policy for that's currently in effect for RAID volumes. It only prints the state (WB for

Re: PATCH: Round 2 of octeon rng

2013-10-23 Thread William Orr
On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Paul Irofti p...@irofti.net wrote: Hi William, I have an almost identical diff in my tree for a driver for octeon's RNG. On which machines did you test this? I wrote mine for DSR-500. But I remember the reads had some hick-ups. Since why I did not commit

Re: PATCH: Round 2 of octeon rng

2013-10-23 Thread William Orr
On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 22:05, William Orr wrote: I guess I misunderstood, as I thought that /dev/random dumped the entropy pool, and that /dev/arandom put the random data through a stream cipher so that grabbing random

Re: partial xlocale(3) port from FreeBSD

2013-10-23 Thread Vladimir Támara Patiño
Commenting differences I find between your patch and the one I sent On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:32:29PM +0200, Martin Pelikan wrote: Index: Makefile +CFLAGS+=-D__NO_TLS I had removed parts that used TLS, but this is better. Index: arch/amd64/gdtoa/strtold.c I didn't have this (neither for