Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon May 08 2006 - 03:02:04 EST


Hi!

> Then I'll run my test on one of the various arches where HZ=~100 and
> we don't have a TSC. Like Sparc?
>
> /* XXX Maybe do something better at some point... -DaveM */
> typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
> #define get_cycles() (0)

Seems like sparc32 is broken :-(, and probably broken terminally...
there are very little randomness sources that can handle 10msec
sampling period :-(.

Maybe we should disable /dev/random on sparc32?
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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