Re: "Boot this kernel once" functionality? (amd64)

2020-09-24 Thread John Nemeth
On Sep 24, 9:14am, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: } Subject: Re: "Boot this kernel once" functionality? (amd64) } On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:09:43PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: } > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Anthony Mallet wrote: } > > I was also wondering if it would be possible to pass

re: "Boot this kernel once" functionality? (amd64)

2020-09-24 Thread matthew green
Reinoud Zandijk writes: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:09:43PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Anthony Mallet wrote: > > > I was also wondering if it would be possible to pass arguments to the > > > primary or secondary bootloader via reboot(2) and the

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
nia wrote: > Unless you buy one of the snake oil devices Mr. Gustafsson sells, of > course. The devices you call "snake oil" and me pushing for NetBSD to stop generating predictable keys are both aspects of me working to address entropy related vulnerabilities ever since recognizing them as a

Re: "Boot this kernel once" functionality? (amd64)

2020-09-24 Thread Reinoud Zandijk
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:09:43PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Anthony Mallet wrote: > > I was also wondering if it would be possible to pass arguments to the > > primary or secondary bootloader via reboot(2) and the boothowto > > flags. But this

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
nia wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:32:23PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > OK, so the printf should never happen when the system has been properly > > configured. In this case I have no objection. > > No, it will happen frequently in VMs and on non-recent-x86 hardware. The cases of

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread Michael van Elst
mar...@duskware.de (Martin Husemann) writes: >On all of these it *still* is a setup error that needs to be avoided. Every VM is installed manually by someone rolling dice so that such setup errors cannot occur. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet:

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:37:43AM +, nia wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:32:23PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > OK, so the printf should never happen when the system has been properly > > configured. In this case I have no objection. > > No, it will happen frequently in VMs and on

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread nia
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 06:37:43AM +, nia wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:32:23PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > OK, so the printf should never happen when the system has been properly > > configured. In this case I have no objection. > > No, it will happen frequently in VMs and on

Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

2020-09-24 Thread nia
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:32:23PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > OK, so the printf should never happen when the system has been properly > configured. In this case I have no objection. No, it will happen frequently in VMs and on non-recent-x86 hardware.