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Re: Yet another updated entropy patch
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: Yet another updated entropy patch |
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:03:49 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:52:39AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> What do you perceive as the benefit of having the entropy mixing
> function outside of the device framework in its own user space server?
The very same reasons why we bother with this microkernel stuff at all:
- Reducing memory and CPU footprint of kernel
- Reducing amount of code running in kernel mode
- Improving flexibility/hackability
-antrik-
- Yet another updated entropy patch, Michael Casadevall, 2007/07/13
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/07/13
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Michael Casadevall, 2007/07/13
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/07/15
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/07/18
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/07/18
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/07/20
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/07/23
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/07/27
- Re: Yet another updated entropy patch,
olafBuddenhagen <=
Re: Yet another updated entropy patch, olafBuddenhagen, 2007/07/13