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

[David S. Miller]

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 06:26:05 +0000

> > 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?

What do other platforms without a TSC do?
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