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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by LukeShu on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:02PM (#25739140)
If I'm reading the source right, it actually falls back to a blocking `getrandom` followed by /dev/urandom; so actually instead of spamming the logs about "entropy pool hasn't been seeded", it will block until it is seeded.
Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by segfaultbuserr on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:55PM (#25740072)
It'll also block the system from booting for as long as a few minutes in the absence of user input.