> "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'" This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll revert it.
A bit later another commit [1] was merged that makes reads from /dev/urandom opportunistically initialize the RNG. In practice this has the same result as the reverted commit on non-obsolete architectures, which support the jitter entropy generation.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f98a4bfee72c22f50a... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0313bc278dac7cd9ce8...
> "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'" This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll revert it.