[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] libjitterentropy: add 2.1.2

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 17:12 +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> From the following kernel commit we know: Fedora has integrated the
> jitter
> entropy daemon to work around slow boot problems, especially on VM's
> that
> don't support virtio-rng
> 
> 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81e69df38e2911b642ec121dec319fad2a4782f3
> 
> Do the same thing for Yocto.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>

I'm not convinced this is going to help. The userspace support comes up
quite late and the kernel blocking has already happened before that
point when I last saw these issues. This was why I just enabled the
virtio rng passthrough everywhere...

Is libjitterentropy actually helping your use cases?

Cheers,

Richard