<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The devices where I’ve experienced long start up delays didn’t all have a HRNG. The rng-tools wouldn’t have achieved anything.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">ColdFire based routers running a 2.0 Linux kernel were the first time I personally saw this one. uClinux still supported 2.0 kernels last I checked — they are very small and relatively fast.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pauli<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Jun 2019, at 5:25 am, Kurt Roeckx <<a href="mailto:kurt@roeckx.be" class="">kurt@roeckx.be</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:08:24PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jun 7, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Kurt Roeckx <<a href="mailto:kurt@roeckx.be" class="">kurt@roeckx.be</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">This is not the sort of thing to bolt into the kernel, but is not<br class="">unreasonable for systemd and the like.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The kernel actually already does this in recent versions, if<br class="">configured to do it.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">We're talking about what to do with for older kernels.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">For older kernels you install rng-tools that feeds the hwrng in<br class="">the kernel.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Kurt<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>