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David E. O'Brien 99ff83da74 Decouple yarrow from random(4) device.
* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option.
  The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow.

* random(4) device doesn't really depend on rijndael-*.  Yarrow, however, does.

* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
  random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
  random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup.
  Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a
  bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools.
  We currently have 3 random_adaptors:
  + yarrow
  + rdrand (ivy.c)
  + nehemeiah

* Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into
  corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider.
  probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor
  from a list of registered ones.

* If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the
  creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed.

* Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a
  system wide one.

Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: obrien
2013-07-29 20:26:27 +00:00
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man1
man3 Add new FOREACH_FROM variants of the queue(3) FOREACH macros which can 2013-06-18 02:57:56 +00:00
man4 Decouple yarrow from random(4) device. 2013-07-29 20:26:27 +00:00
man5 Regen. 2013-07-16 19:20:50 +00:00
man6
man7 Ports switched from dialog to dialog4ports some time ago. 2013-06-20 21:16:46 +00:00
man8 Mention the "nojailvnet" keyword. 2013-05-24 14:57:38 +00:00
man9 Document the sbinuptime() and getsbinuptime() functions introduced in 2013-07-25 20:53:15 +00:00
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