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

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/09/2014 10:33 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.
So this is about seeding, not feeding? (sorry, did not mean to start 
rhyming ;-)).
-boris


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