Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen Hackathon] new PV drivers

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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