Hey Adrian, As discussed with John and Warner upthread, I hope to have a patch out for review later today to give folks a knob to disable this. It may even make sense to default it on, at least for !x86. I am happy to CC you on review if you like.
Take care, Conrad On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:22 AM Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 11:40, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Author: cem >> Date: Mon Apr 15 18:40:36 2019 >> New Revision: 346250 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346250 >> >> Log: >> random(4): Block read_random(9) on initial seeding > > > Sniffle, this broke on my mips boards whilst debugging why I'm seeing > transmit crashes and other bad behaviours. if_arge has some hacks to randomly > allocate mac addresses if the board doesn't supply them. This is going to be > a common thing to deal with during board bring-up before you do things like, > I dunno, make storage work. I'm going to fix if_arge to use the new API to > generate MAC addresses but there'll be other places where this will bite you. > > Please reconsider this a bit. I know people are trying to improve our > security and cryptography support. But some of us are trying to use FreeBSD > code in fun places and maybe occasionally do some more porting work. :-) > > > -adrian > > _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
