On 10/11/2012 04:25 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 10/11/2012 04:16 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > >> Hmm, wouldn't that mean, that the generator is seeded with the _same_ seed on >> every reboot? >> How is this different from booting with no seed at all? > > > This is intend to resolve the no-sufficient-entropy issue during ssh > connection. But, yes it's same across reboot if the initrd is not > regenerated. > > In old kdump code we originally copy bytes from /dev/mem, but that is > not good because /dev/mem is access denied, BTW, the access denying problem is only limited to s390 arch > also it's not so random as well. > >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
