entropy

Robert Swindells <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Does anyone have working /dev/random on a sparc64 machine ?

Have tried creating a seed file on an amd64 machine and importing that
but it doesn't make any difference, python is blocked waiting for
entropy.

This is on an Ultra-2.

# rndctl -l
Source                 Bits Type      Flags
/dev/random               0 ???  estimate, collect, v
cd0                       0 disk estimate, collect, v, t, dt
sd1                       0 disk estimate, collect, v, t, dt
sd0                       0 disk estimate, collect, v, t, dt
cpu1                      0 vm   estimate, collect, v, t, dv
cpu0                      0 vm   estimate, collect, v, t, dv
hme0                      0 net  estimate, v, t, dt
autoconf                  0 ???  estimate, collect, t
seed                    128 ???  estimate, collect, v
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