Hi, On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 09:56:59AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:21:36PM +0100, David Jander wrote: > > Or is there a way (that I ignore) to speed-up the generation of > > entropy in the Linux kernel?
I agree with the other that such a patch is not a good idea for ptxdist upstream. Collecting enough entropy is not easy. But working around it like this is imho not something that should be the default. > I heard other people use haveged for this. I have two experimental > patches for adding a haveged package, but did not test it thouroughly > yet. Maybe someone else wants to try? > > https://github.com/LeSpocky/ptxdist/tree/haveged I prefer a patch (hint, hint :-))... Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de
