Can these patches be considered again for 20.08?

I thought that I addressed all of the issues or at least provided
reasonable responses to all of the concerns.

thanks
dan

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:19 AM Dan Gora <d...@adax.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:13 AM Dan Gora <d...@adax.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:04 AM Mattias Rönnblom
> > <mattias.ronnb...@ericsson.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >> so what you are effectively asking is to
> > > >> double the size of the support matrix, and for the project to ensure
> > > >> that every single dependency can always be built against a new version
> > > >> and used against an older one.
> > > > No, this is not correct.  The size of the support/test matrix is
> > > > exactly the same, what changes is the number of build systems that
> > > > have to be supported.
> > > >
> > > > Before my patches you had to test targets with:
> > > >
> > > > no rdseed and no getentropy
> > > > rdseed and no getentropy
> > > > no rdseed and getentropy
> > > > rdseed and getentropy.
> > >
> > >
> > > rdseed will go away eventually, when all reasonable systems have
> > > getentropy(). That might well take a couple of years.
>
> So then why not just use only /dev/urandom for now, then change DPDK
> to use getentropy() when "all reasonable systems have getentropy()"?
>
> *problem solved*
>
> thanks
> dan

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