[meta-xilinx] Failed to init entropy source hwrng

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

Hi Arno,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org <meta-xilinx-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org> On Behalf Of Arno Steffens
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:48 AM
> To: meta xilinx <meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org>
> Subject: [meta-xilinx] Failed to init entropy source hwrng
> 
> Build a rootfs with Yocto 2.5 and 3.0 (Zeus). Got both working, but booting in 3.0
> is terrible slow.
> The reasons seems to be that random numbers are not generated for ssh. I
> found that there is a new startup script:
> /etc/init.d/rng-tools
> that needs around 14s. But if I comment it out, it ssh needs even 86s!
> 
> Please help, what can I do to get same fast timing as in 2.5? I would rather go
> lower security than waiting for 14 seconds.
> I am running a 4.19 vanilla kernel with some xilinx patches. Do I miss one?
> 
> Output in boot-log>:
> ...
> run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/nfsroot: exit status 1 Starting random
> number generator daemon Initializing available sources
> 
> Failed to init entropy source hwrng
> 
> Initializing AES buffer
> 
> Enabling JITTER rng support
> 
> Initializing entropy source jitter
> 
> .

We used haveged recipe to overcome this issue


> random: crng init done
> Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd
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