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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com,
	Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>,
	David Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen Hackathon] new PV drivers
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:33:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402324439.23103.7.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5395C50E.6010705@oracle.com>

On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:30 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 06/09/2014 05:42 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:56 +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 12:47, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Present (by memory):
> >>>> - Julien Grall,
> >>>> - Stefano Stabellini,
> >>>> - Ian Campbell,
> >>>> - Roger Pau Monne,
> >>>> - Dario Faggioli,
> >>>> - Andrii Tseglytskyi,
> >>>> - David Vrabel,
> >>>> - Konrad Wilk.
> >>>>
> >>>> * What new PV devices do we need? What has been done already?
> >>> I missed this session, but was wondering about an entropy driver.
> >>> We're integrating an OCaml SSL/TLS into MirageOS, and it's not clear
> >>> how PV guests should go about getting a strong source of entropy from
> >>> the outside world in a reasonably portable way.
> 
> 
> Is entropy provided by drivers/char/random.c not sufficient?

This is about providing entropy for that driver to consume.

VMs typically don't have much hardware and therefore don't have much
entropy to seed the pool with.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-09 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-03 11:47 [Xen Hackathon] new PV drivers Stefano Stabellini
2014-06-06 13:56 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2014-06-08  0:02   ` Adam Wick
2014-06-09  9:02   ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-09  9:42     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-06-09  9:45       ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-09 14:30       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-06-09 14:33         ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-06-09 14:39           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-06-09 14:43             ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-09 14:55               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-06-09 15:06                 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-09 19:16                   ` Andy Smith

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