Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] powerpc/powernv: wire up rng during setup_arch | Date | Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:28:24 +1000 |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:08:49 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > The platform's RNG must be available before random_init() in order to be > useful for initial seeding, which in turn means that it needs to be > called from setup_arch(), rather than from an init call. Fortunately, > each platform already has a setup_arch function pointer, which means we > can wire it up that way. Complicating things, however, is that POWER8 > systems need some per-cpu state and kmalloc, which isn't available at > this stage. So we split things up into an early phase and a later > opportunistic phase. This commit also removes some noisy log messages > that don't add much. > > [...]
Applied to powerpc/fixes.
[1/1] powerpc/powernv: wire up rng during setup_arch https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f3eac426657d985b97c92fa5f7ae1d43f04721f3
cheers
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