Entropy loss
Entropy loss
Posted Sep 16, 2019 9:34 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: The 5.3 kernel is out by mgedmin
Parent article: The 5.3 kernel is out
Exactly that - more efficient I/O led to fewer interrupts, and thus not enough entropy at boot time.
I'm hoping to dig deeper into this, but I'm also sort of buried in conference material at the moment...
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