[OE-core] [PATCH] qemu.inc: Drop rng-tools

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Nov 13 19:55:23 UTC 2017


Can you explain why?

Ross

On 13 November 2017 at 19:30, Otavio Salvador <
otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This was included to allow hwrng to feed data to /dev/random. Since the
> > kernel does this itself (confirmed by the recent kernel Kconfig text
> change
> > , code inspection and local testing), we can drop rng-tools from these
> > images.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>
> This is still needed for QEMU ARM.
>
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