No need for extra RNG entropy collection with kernel >= 5.4 (!394) · Merge requests · infrastructure / apertis-image-recipes · GitLab

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Emanuele Aina requested to merge wip/em/drop-rngd into apertis/v2022dev3 Jul 07, 2021

In Linux 5.4 a new in kernel jitter entropy collector has been added, removing the need for the user-space jitterentropy-rngd collector.

https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation

Since we now ship with linux >= 5.10 we can now drop the extra packages.

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