Re: [PATCH] hw/riscv: virt: pass random seed to fdt

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Alistair,

On 7/8/22, Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > 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?

Actually, in trying to reproduce this, I don't actually think this is
affected by those old random.c bugs.


>> 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?

No, I can't, and I'm now no longer convinced that there *is* a bug.
Can you try to repro again and send me detailed reproduction steps?

Thanks,
Jason