On Sunday, June 25th, 2023 at 22.21, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sami - can you try to revert the revert: > > git revert 69cbeb61ff9093a9155cb19a36d633033f71093a > > but then additionally in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c, just change the > > static DECLARE_WORK(work, refresh_nv_rng_seed); > schedule_work(&work); > > in refresh_nv_rng_seed_notification() to be something like > > static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(work, refresh_nv_rng_seed); > schedule_delayed_work(&work, 120*HZ); > > to make the work fire two minutes after boot? > > The question then being: > > (a) does that fix the boot for you (maybe it's the schedule_work > itself that confused things, however unlikely that sounds) > > (b) if it does boot, do you notice something happening two minutes > after booting? I did that and: (a) It does boot fine with this change. (b) I don't notice anything happening at two minutes after booting. I can see there is a random-seed file located in EFI partition, but it does not change two minutes after boot (but it is different each boot). > I'm not entirely sure which laptop it is, with laptop manufacturers > often re-using model names over several years, but "HP 6730b" seems to > be basically from July 2008 (going by the service manual I found). So > we're talking 15 years ago, and yes, EFI was likely much less > reliable back then. I got the laptop secondhand 7 years ago, but the 2008 has been my guess as well based on online resources. I have the _latest_ bios on it, 68PDD Ver. F.20 from 2011.
