Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:50:36 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: mmotm 2008-12-01-19-41: early exception (page fault -- deref of 0x20) |
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Matt Mackall wrote: > > If we oops or warn while picking a timesource, we'll have lots of fun? >
we really only need to mix in the tsc; ktime_get() is just an arch friendly way to get that I supposed (wrongly).
but yes we need to do a few things 1) seed on demand with a platform time source 2) have a way where arch init can just hand semi random data during the boot process to increase the randomness (even if it doesn't count as entropy) I got pulled in some big project at work so I might not get to it this week, but if nobody beats me to it I will get to it ;-(
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