On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:04 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> wrote: > > Hey Alistair, > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:09:09AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > Hi Alistair, > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 4:09 AM Alistair Francis <alistai...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > I have a Linux 5.8 test case that is failing due to this patch. > > > > Before I started fixing things in random.c, there were a lot of early > > boot bugs with the RNG in Linux. I backported the fixes for these to > > all stable kernels. It's a bummer that risc-v got hit by these bugs, > > but I think that's just the way things go unfortunately.
Hmm... That's a pain. So there is a bug in older kernels where they won't boot if we specify this? Can you point to the fixes? > > > > Jason > > > > By the way, I still can't find this in your github tree. I was hoping we > could get this in for 7.1. Yeah, it's hard to accept when it will break users. I would rather avoid someone upgrading to QEMU 7.1 and the kernel failing to boot with no information. > > As for your 5.8 issue, I've been trying to reproduce that to understand > more about it, but I'm unable to. I've been trying with > nommu_virt_defconfig using my patch ontop of qemu master. Maybe it's > possible in testing this out you were testing the wrong branch? Anyway, > it'd be nice to get this queued up... Hmm... you can't reproduce it? Alistair > > Jason
