linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] random: block in /dev/urandom

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Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:47:48 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] random: block in /dev/urandom

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 5:18 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > and I'd be surprised if virtio devices made it through with a specific
> > platform emulation.

> In general they do: virtio devices appear as regular PCI devices
> and get probed from there, as long as the drivers are available.

> It looks like the PCI driver does not get initialized here though,
> presumably because it's not enabled in versatile_defconfig.
> It used to also not be enabled in multi_v5_defconfig, but I have
> merged a patch from Anders that enables it in 5.18 for the
> multi_v5_defconfig.

Ah, I thought Versatile was like the other older Arm reference platforms
and didn't have PCI.

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