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DateMon, 8 May 2006 06:26:05 +0000
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers
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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