* Adam Ford <aford...@gmail.com> [191022 12:13]: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:35 AM Tony Lindgren <t...@atomide.com> wrote: > > > > * Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> [190909 13:41]: > > > On Monday 09 September 2019 08:37:09 Adam Ford wrote: > > > > I applied this on 5.3 and it is working. I assume the same is true in > > > > for-next. > > > > Hmm I noticed I stopped getting RNG data after several rmmod modprobe > > cycles, or several hd /dev/random reads. Anybody else seeing that? > > > > > > Do you want to submit a formal patch? I can mark it as 'tested-by' > > > > This really helps speed up the startup sequence on boards with sshd > > > > because it delays for nearly 80 seconds waiting for entropy without > > > > the hwrng. > > > > > > Hi! When applying a patch, could you please disable this rng for n900? > > > > > > In omap3-n900.dts for rng should be status = "disabled" (as Tony already > > > wrote), similarly like for aes. > > > > Yeah I'll post a proper patch after -rc1. > > Tony, > > I am just following up on this. Without the HWRNG there are some > tools and daemons like sshd which wait a long time at startup. The > patch you sent really helps speed up the startup time in these cases. > At least in my case, it shaves 80 seconds off by eliminating the > delays. > > Do you think you'll have time to post a more formal patch? If not, I > can do it. I just don't know which mailing list is the more > appropriate. I was able to verity your patch on a DM3730 and OMAP3530
Yeah sorry for the delays, I'll post it when I get a chance to work on that again. I need to first deal with the other pending patches for v5.5, and we've had quite a few fixes for v5.4. Regards, Tony
