Re: kern/34507: bge(4) doesn't contribute to the rnd pool

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/34507; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: mlelstv%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: kern/34507: bge(4) doesn't contribute to the rnd pool
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:57:59 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:50:02PM +0000, Christoph Badura wrote:
 
 >  I've looked at adding rnd(4) support for bge before.  I gave up because
 >  determining if the interrupt routine was called because of a interrupt
 >  from the device was expensive and, IIRC, not trivial without layering
 >  violations.
 
 If you allow for a little fuzz, that's not really a problem. You may
 assume that the bge hardware caused the interrupt when packets are
 received or transmitted.
 
 However, depending on traffic and configuration, the interrupts are
 actually polled at regular intervals. Not much entropy to be gained.
 
 
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