Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:22:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from` |
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Hi!
> Am 25.04.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o: > >Does this help on your system? > > Thank you, after figuring out how to apply the paste, yes it helped on my > Lenovo X60. > > >commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce > >Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > >Date: Wed Apr 25 01:12:32 2018 -0400 > > > > random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings > > On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg. > > I guess this is a problem with old hardware?
Ok, I see it too, thinkpad x60.
But... this machine has spinning harddrive and independend RTC; there really should be enough randomness...
Could we exploit either of them as randomness source when we run out of entropy?
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