RE: [MiNT] high-quality random generator?!!

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Frank Naumann
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 5:24 PM
> To: Martin-Eric Racine
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] high-quality random generator?!!
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > When installing the new MiNT-Net (which I finally had to download 
> > from a friend's place), I noticed a rather lenghty peculiar bit of
> > bootup message I have never seen before:
> > 
> > "High-quality random number generator courtesy of ...."
> > 
> > Where does this come from?!  I looked in the sockdev.xdd sources
> > but could not find anything about it, nor in the CHANGES file.
> 
> If you read the Changelog of the FreeMiNT kernel you will see an entry
> about a new random device.

Hmmm,

is this *required* to be in the kernel? Why not make it an XDD?????