Re: Notes on gnu-latest and Debian GNU/Hurd
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:09:30PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > However, this is entirely a hack---so I would welcome pointers
> > on how to improve on this.
>
> Someone needs to add a random device to OSKit (don't bother with gnumach < 2.0).
> This random device can then be polled by /dev/random. Actually, someone
> should implemented libchannel, and then /dev/random can poll any character source
> (like a tcp port, whatever). But the random kernel device is needed either
> way.
>
> This is not so hard. And now that we talk about it, I remember that Derek
> Davies who already did some work on this sent me his patches for review a
> month ago, and I completely forgot about it until right now! Sorry Derek!
> I will try to get a look at it soon.
>
Don't even bother with what I sent you before. I've made a lot of
progress since then. I've just about got the "bottom" interface done.
I've hooked up the linux block device (add_blkdev_randomness) and that
works well with the interface. Right now, I'm in the middle of trying
to hook up the network device. I'll send you another patch soon with
disk + net randomness. After that I'll probably start working on the
"top" interfaces rather than, say, hooking up keyboard/mouse
randomness or some other bottom interface stuff.
Derek
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