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

[Alistair Francis]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:04 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Alistair,
>
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:09:09AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Alistair,
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 4:09 AM Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > I have a Linux 5.8 test case that is failing due to this patch.
> >
> > Before I started fixing things in random.c, there were a lot of early
> > boot bugs with the RNG in Linux. I backported the fixes for these to
> > all stable kernels. It's a bummer that risc-v got hit by these bugs,
> > 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?

> >
> > Jason
> >
>
> By the way, I still can't find this in your github tree. I was hoping we
> could get this in for 7.1.

Yeah, it's hard to accept when it will break users. I would rather
avoid someone upgrading to QEMU 7.1 and the kernel failing to boot
with no information.

>
> 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?

Alistair

>
> Jason