[Buildroot] get initial entropy from the host

Enoch W. ixew at hotmail.com
Wed May 30 00:31:14 UTC 2018


Hi, 

Thanks for making Linux so easy to build [that is, when it works ;-) ]

package/initscripts/init.d/S20urandom doesn't have readily available entropy on its first boot.
May I suggest initializing /dev/urandom from host generated random-seed. I do it now via my board post-build.sh as follows.
IMHO it should be done as standard.

umask 077
dd if=/dev/urandom of=${TARGET_DIR}/etc/random-seed count=1

Thanks, Enoch.



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