Updated Entropy Patch (now with Disk I/O)

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Casadevall
After bit bashing, I managed to get the entropy driver working properly with I/O sources without destroying I/O performance. I also cleaned up my code somewhat. If you want to use the entropy driver now, you can use streamio (I'm working on a random translator at the moment) with settrans -

Updated Entropy Driver

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I forgot to note that I am with pulling IO into the entropy buffer, but I need to do it in a way that doesn't kill system performance. I have a patch for blk_io to do extactly that, but I'm running LMBench against my mach, and a stock kernel to

Updated Entropy Patch

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Casadevall
entropy.c Description: Binary data entropy.diff Description: Binary data entropy.h Description: Binary data This is an updated version of my original entropy patch (both entropy files go into gnumach/device). It exposes a new interface for adding entropy, entropy_putdata, removes the twis

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
"Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with Pierre, please provide some examples. Ah yes, examples, examples. I've mostly been going by the following passage from an old archive mail about libchannel written by Marcus (http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20020130.174030.