From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Python 3.5 and the use of getrandom() system call
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:33:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129093312.5a63bcs73zded5xk@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161129085658.GA9535@falbala.home.lespocky.de>
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 09:56:59AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:21:36PM +0100, David Jander wrote:
> > Or is there a way (that I ignore) to speed-up the generation of
> > entropy in the Linux kernel?
I agree with the other that such a patch is not a good idea for ptxdist
upstream.
Collecting enough entropy is not easy. But working around it like this is
imho not something that should be the default.
> I heard other people use haveged for this. I have two experimental
> patches for adding a haveged package, but did not test it thouroughly
> yet. Maybe someone else wants to try?
>
> https://github.com/LeSpocky/ptxdist/tree/haveged
I prefer a patch (hint, hint :-))...
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-18 13:21 David Jander
2016-11-18 17:15 ` Clemens Gruber
2016-11-19 1:23 ` Roland Hieber
2016-11-21 7:24 ` David Jander
2016-11-29 8:56 ` Alexander Dahl
2016-11-29 9:33 ` Michael Olbrich [this message]
2016-11-29 13:14 ` Clemens Gruber
2016-11-29 13:41 ` Alexander Dahl
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