On 4/17/2019 10:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mi, 17.04.19 10:55, Steve Grubb (sgrubb(a)redhat.com) wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:38:18 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> rngd runs as regular system service, hence what's the point of that
>> altogether? I mean, it runs so late during boot, at a point where the
>> entropy pool is full anyway,
> I'd really like to see it start much earlier. Any way to make that
> happen?
Well, no. I mean, the only way you can do that is by turning rngd into
its own init system, if you want it to run before the init
system.
This seems like a false dichotomy, no? Surely, things like this are a
possibility:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-September/00022...
But beyond that, is there really no way to lift this earlier in the boot
logic?
-jc