From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10808271938l4d95eeebt52117ae950186026@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:38:43 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <5bb2fcc60808271928m40da8c01ld9ee4dc0f94720e9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080825110330.10b075c6@dazone> <03694148c5c6c547f42b236ff8e57618@quanstro.net> <13426df10808250752o475c689fr4306be6f865079be@mail.gmail.com> <70babc1dbfdd8db3637a493869aa3726@coraid.com> <20080825204841.3806af18@dazone> <13426df10808251544k23efd6d6qf121915d34d56cab@mail.gmail.com> <20080826084405.2e853049@dazone> <5bb2fcc60808271928m40da8c01ld9ee4dc0f94720e9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 094291fa-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Alex Lee wrote: > The problem looks similar to this: > http://9fans.net/archive/2006/03/588 -- except that the lguest > instance works fine while genrandom is running. Is this genrandom > behavior anything out of the ordinary? > I don't think so. Genrandom make me want to look at using the hardware RNGs a few years ago, but then Intel killed firmware hub and the whole idea kind of went away. ron